Ironically, we escape anxiety when we stop trying to escape it and allow ourselves to feel it instead. We are conditioned to resist our feelings in order to cope with them, but ironically it’s when we feel them that they pass through us.
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When we think about life and the human condition, our mind is trying to understand (and often rule ;)) something that is prior to it.
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I connected with a deep sense of loneliness and isolation, buried very deeply within me since my early childhood, during a recent meditation. I attuned to the four-year-old me, and to a sense of feeling unseen and unheard that I experienced at that age and throughout most of my childhood.
We heal as adults when we heal the broken children within Read More »
What a fascinating collection of juxtapositions, polarities, controversies the human condition holds. Movement and stillness.
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Sharing our life with others is perhaps one of the most beautiful and touching aspects of the human experience. Celebrating with someone when things go well. Talking over our hurt when they don’t.
Byron Katie has a saying that I love : “Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.” Never is this truer than when it comes to our own critical thoughts about ourselves.
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Smiling sends a powerful message not just to other people, but to our own brain. When we smile, our brain releases neuropeptides, including dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins, which can improve our mood and reduce stress.
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One of the “lessons” so many of us learn as children is that we are not safe. My own formative introduction to that was through being locked out one evening. I’d been to visit the neighbours and I got home a few minutes later than I was supposed to.
We can’t find safety in the domain that’s not creating its lack Read More »
So often when we navigate periods of deep change, grief or loss, we are so focused on getting to the other side that we forget the aspect of ourselves that’s grieving. The fear and pain that are an intrinsic part of transitions are so uncomfortable to be with
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I’m here to learn self-love. I’m here to teach self-love. To myself first. I cried this morning as I wrote these words, as they came out of me.
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