As we collectively closed the door on 2020, a month ago now, I told myself that I needed 2021 to be different. Tired of feeling like a madly ricocheting pinball constantly being batted about, I
Pandemic
Checking in with your September Self
This is surely the strangest September most of us have ever lived through. What will this Fall bring to our lives, to our country, to our world? No one knows. Uncertainty is the only thing
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Pandemic
Not Myself Today
A few weeks ago, when Covid-19 began keeping us all home, my partner Malve dug an old mental health button out of the junk drawer. It said “Not Myself Today.” In case any of us
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Self-Care
A Time to Trust
I don’t know about you, but I’m finding that time has a very different quality during this period of isolation. It’s more than not remembering the date or the day of the week. There seems
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Self-Care
Off-grid with intention
Each summer, my partner and I have one week together where it’s just the two of us. No kids. No cats. No work. No responsibilities other than feeding ourselves. We’ve gone on road trips, we’ve
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Self-Care
Radical Love
Imagine if school curriculums, right from the start, taught that each of us has a unique inner essence and that true happiness comes from aligning our lives with that true self? What if we learned
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Self-Care
Being The Gardener
“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze
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Self-Care
Living the Question
The first week of the New Year has just ended. Since January 1, I’ve noticed people diligently writing in journals at my local coffee shop and others reading books with titles like “A New Year,
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Self-Care
Warrior for a Week
When I was a kid, no one that I knew ran for health, no parent went to the gym, and there were certainly no yoga classes. Add to that, people were allowed to smoke inside!