Stop apologizing. Are you even really sorry? Sure, perhaps for some grave misdeeds, but in reality – if you’re a few minutes late for a meeting, forget your nephew’s birthday, spoke over someone – whatever. Let it go. Words are spells. The more you apologize, the more you convince yourself you are inconveniencing others. The …
I choose family. I choose to connect with family. I choose to listen to family. I choose to learn from family. This does not mean I accept untolerable behavior. This does not mean I do not take space nor need time to decompress. This means I know my family is my greatest teacher of how …
How do we maintain a sense of self and at the same time allow the world to impact us? Is this a contradiction, or is the answer that we do both? I am not sure. I find when I maintain strong emotionally boundaries, I am able to appreciate other’s falls and leaps more. Furthermore, I …
I stopped drinking. I cannot say why. It was not a compulsion in that I fell into a dark ditch, it was a compulsion that my soul spoke, ‘you don’t need this anymore.’ I had a glass of wine with some friends after a dance class on a toasty Friday evening in September. And that …
As Chance the Rapper sings, “Blessings keep falling in my lap.” In my early hours of waking today, I did a large starfish stretch and my laptop that I placed on my bed to watch some flicks last evening (but didn’t) went careening off my bed onto the wood floors. Although my eyes were closed, …
As a child, I swam before I walked. Then, when I walked, I ran instead. I craved motion. I started skiing at 4, ice skating at 6, played soccer, swam, and frolicked in the ocean. All time stopped once I laced on my first pair of running shoes. The wind rushed across my face. My …
The French word ‘faim’ translates ‘to be hungry’. In our world of binaries, craving what is not present, creates reverence, for that feeling when received. Family is the first people we know on this Earth. Many children suffer great losses as an infant – through death, adoption, neglect. Some families nurture, care for their children …
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