There’s a part of me that is continually looking for the thing – the one solution that will miraculously solve all of my problems and pain. Can you relate? To this end, I’ve explored countless healing modalities, mindfulness approaches, and exercise + diet regimes. Most were quickly discarded. Some lasted for a number of months […]
Our Bodies – Where Personal and Multigenerational Trauma Meet
We have all experienced pain and trauma at some point in our lives. Ideally, at the time of the painful situation or event, we were able to work through it and return to health and wholeness. Ideally, any trauma we experienced fully resolved and we returned to our lives even more resilient than before. Unfortunately, […]
The Challenges of Listening to Yourself on the Healing Journey
Last time we explored how Do What Works (for you) applies to self-care. Today, I want to take this subject deeper and look at how listening to your own internal guidance (or, doing what works for you) applies to the healing journey. Here, there are more challenges to doing what works regardless of what it […]
My Headache Story
Note: my ongoing struggle with headaches is still really difficult for me to talk about. I hope that through sharing a bit of my story here, those of you who also experience chronic pain will feel a little less alone. Pain and I? We go waaaay back. Once, I tried to estimate the number of […]
The Art of Relaxed Suffering
It’s about 5 years ago. I’m in my Xin Yi (an internal martial art) class. We are in the Bow and Arrow Stance which is similar to yoga’s warrior 1 pose – or a modified lunge. The majority of our weight is centered over our front foot. We’ve been in this stance for 5-10 minutes […]