Self-Care for Stressful Times: Three Ways I’m Good to Myself When Overwhelm Threatens by Keleigh Jan 25, 2017 A few days ago I was talking to a family friend and mentioned that I’d hit an overwhelm threshold the week before. His response: “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t overwhelmed.” I mean, for many of us, life itself feels pretty overwhelming, no? I recently spoke with a yoga teacher friend about “self-care.” She...
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I’m Still Caught Off Guard on April 6 by Cynthia May 22, 2016 Thursday Truc Bach Hopper Koffee Yesterday was incredibly powerful in the most subtle of ways. It challenged all my notions of loyalty, relationship, experience… All my beliefs about what it means to have a son who died at 29 and how I am supposed to live with that… I’ve been working on it for a long time now, since 2003, and it has...
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All she had to do was put on her Shoes… by Tim December 1, 2015 It happened so quickly. One minute my eight year old daughter and I were preparing to go on a bike ride, leaving her grandfather to watch the football game. The next minute, I’m screaming at my daughter for not being ready, then in my father-in-law’s face because he got involved in the situation. All she had to do was put her shoes on and we would have been on our...
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Stress-Nothing more than Fear in Disguise by Meghan October 18, 2015 I have lived the majority of my life feeling a constant anxiety that I had labeled just a necessary “stress” of living. Even in the simple everyday tasks of waking up, getting ready for work, and showing up on time, my mind continually found ways to fear the outcome of how I may somehow mess up or do something wrong: I might take too long, be late, give a...
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How is your Shadow? by Keleigh August 24, 2015 I’ve always been drawn to ask people about the things we don’t normally talk about – our deepest fears and most farfetched dreams, the obsessions that keep us awake at night, the “confessions” that tumble out in darkness when everyone else has gone to sleep and it’s just two voices whispering fervently beneath the bedcovers. The meeting of the secret, ineffable realm and tangible, sensate...
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