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Why I Stopped Practicing Yoga
I stopped practicing yoga. Yoga had been a mainstay of my life for nearly 20 years. Its been hard to articulate why I stopped practicing yoga without people questioning my choice, or thinking that I’m judging their choice. I decided to write about it. Sometimes I...
Lessons about authenticity from a 7th Grade Sleepover
The scene is a 7th-grade girls' sleepover, circa 1985. We stay up all night giggling and playing games of interest to 13-year-old girls. One game was hypnotizing each other. One girl would lie down while another one would swing a pendant on a chain back and forth...
Our complicated relationship with money
If you ask almost anyone what is most important to them in life you will hear answers like, "my family, my community, my friends, my church, my health, making my community a better place...". But yet if you look at the way these same people spend their time, or...
Developing a Relationship to Water
One feature and legacy of colonization is objectification of everything: humans, land, animals, trees, air, etc. They all are seen by the colonizer as objects or “resources” to be capitalized. These are all inanimate objects put on Earth for the colonizer to exploit....
Surrender
One of my favorite authors, Charles Eisenstein, frequently says that what we really need to do in this time of climate and environmental destruction is to surrender to it. Trust me when I say he explains this much more eloquently than I will here, but the general...
Abundance
Abundance is an overused buzzword in the "self-improvement industry". I'm guilty of overusing it. I had an idea in my head about what I meant by this, but recently had several embodied experiences of just exactly what abundance feels like in the body. I have been...
Embracing the Fire
My Mom had a fire. She was often a kind peaceful woman. But when her fire rose to the surface, you knew to duck for cover. Her fire felt scary and unpredictable. Even as her health was slipping away from her, heaven help the health care worker who naively spoke to...
Chronic Liminal Tears
For several weeks now I have felt this pressure in my eyes. Maybe its just behind the eyes. You know that pressure, when you know tears are being formed, and they will soon be released. That pressure that makes me either: look for a safe space to cry, grab a box of...
How little I know…
The events in Charlottesville, VA in August broke me open in a way I never expected. I've always seen my life as a journey of learning. Every challenge I've encountered has prompted reflection and learning. I like to think that all these learning experiences allow...
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