Category Archives: Mindfulness

Why I Want To Dare Greatly

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. –Brené Brown, Daring Greatly To be honest, I had kinda decided that this would be our first Book Club book before I had even read it. I kept seeing Brené Brown’s name around the interwebs and knew her work centered around one of my favorite & least favorite topics, vulnerability. And then I listened to her interview with Krista Tippett, from NPR’s On Being. And then I listened to it [...]

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2012: The Year of the Crying Warrior

I swear, I don’t think I cried this much during high school! (And don’t think that with a graduating class of only 48 kids you don’t have your fair share of tears. When something goes down in a school that small, you can bet your lunch money that by the time 2nd period is over, no matter what went down, big or small, the whole school knew about it. Wild fire!) But high school drama and real world, mommy drama… [...]

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For Anyone Who’s Ever Cried in Yoga Class

The first time I ever took a yoga class, I cried.   It was 1996, I was living in Washington DC, and a roommate encouraged me to sign up for an 8 week series of Iyengar yoga classes. I didn’t end up loving the class – the focus of Iyengar is in the minutia of alignment, so we spent a LOT of time trying to get our feet in exactly the right position. But there was something about what we [...]

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A Love Letter To My Family

This is the image that shifted my Thanksgiving. I woke up that morning tired and grumpy after a restless night of everyone playing musical beds. With a long mental to-do list already haunting me. Go for a run, eat breakfast, roast the squash and prepare side-dish, take pie out of fridge, walk the dog, take a shower, leave for NJ no later than 12… For the kids, it was a holiday from the moment they woke up. No school! No [...]

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Stepping Out Into…

  This, here. During Thanksgiving week, I *could* be making a list of all that I’m grateful for. I *could* be talking about healthy holiday foods. I *could* be sharing tips on how to get through the holidays without losing your mind/overeating/burning out, etc etc etc. And I may in fact cover these topics at some point. Just not today. Instead. There is some truth to be shared and it looks more like that quote up there. Stepping out into [...]

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Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy. Here’s the hyper-local report from my little pocket of Hastings: Last night (Tues) I took the dog for a walk after dark. The first thing I notice is the scent in the air. Fires burning, wood burning – in fireplaces, yes. I know in some places, there are real (emergency) fires, and not the cozy, gather-round kind. But in my neighborhood, smelling the smoke-heavy air, I know my neighbor’s fireplaces are ablaze. Like walking through a nighttime campground. [...]

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On Science, Faith and the Infinite

  This morning, I opened my email and, through the magic of the internets, was led straight to THIS: Heaven is Real: A Doctor’s Experience with the Afterlife (Dr. Eben Alexander, Newsweek, 10/8/12). Disclosure: I am a person to whom much of this article speaks, loudly and clearly. As someone who regularly engages in yogic and Buddhist practices, someone whose life is informed by a series of direct experiences of interconnectedness with all things, I feel the truth of Dr. [...]

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On Being Enough

Head swirling with to-do’s, tasks, work needing to be done. The overwhelm of this big, giant vision, not wanting to forget all the pieces. Feeling stressed by each piece that swirls by, one by one. I’m not doing enough. Not doing enough. Not enough. At the same time, there is a steadiness underneath. A steady peace. A voice that, if I listen, tells me what is the next action to take. Nourish yourself with food. Write in your journal. Dream. [...]

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What Comes Before The Success?

Failure ultimately leads us to a success. I take personal refuge in that statement as I stumble and clamor my way through new thought patterns. (Hard wired vs. treading new territory.) I’ve created a deep riverbed of bordering-on-the-negative-side of thinking. (Think of Ghostbusters and the pink plasma that ran throughout the seedy underbelly of NYC. Well, it might not be that intense but it does paint a picture!) Every now and then I stumble pretty largely and find myself completely [...]

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Both/And: Separation and Connection

My body and I have a storied past. Two seemingly contradictory stories have lived side by side within me my whole life. Push and pull, shut and open. Almost like being colonized by two separate beings, Jekyll-and-Hyde-style. One story is about denial and fragmentation. Denying the physical, putting pieces of it in boxes that remain taped up, closed up, shut away. It is an old story, the culmination of lifetimes, or at least generations, of holding things so deep within [...]

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