Over the past few months Lionel, my geriatric Siamese, has taken to marking territory. Inside the house... So now, upon entering the front door all and sundry are greeted with the pungent information that this is his turf. The sofabed downstairs is clearly his as well - and we only discovered that just...
Cat Pee (July 24, 2010)
Choice and Power (July 17, 2010)
Vulnerability. The truth for all living things. Everything alive is affected by forces larger than itself: efforts, actions, desires, goals, plans, intentions, will... important as they are, they do not ultimately nor singlehandedly produce the results we living creatures long for. Outcomes are up to...
What Love Looks Like (July 10, 2010)
Please watch this week's video of me in session working with someone to stay with what it feels like in the body when there is dissonance. Approaching ourselves in the bodily sensations of vulnerability is what love looks like. Have a look for yourself! Click on to this link http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Luminous Life (July 3, 2010)
Cycling through the Seymour forest yesterday, heart pounding, hair flying free from under my helmet, I feel time slow itself. Mature cedars flank me, sentries lining the way. High above their branches wave me deeper in to this wooded wonderland. Dappled light marks the path and beside me miniature prehistoric...
Only Human (June 26, 2010)
Standing in the truth of who I am. Trusting that I am enough. Letting go of the outcome. This is what I am thinking about as I contemplate having a difficult conversation with someone I care about. I have the urge to avoid it. Just smooth things over and go along. And what I realize, yet again, is that...
We all want connection (June 19, 2010)
We all want connection - to our family and friends and colleagues and partners... to our work, our community, to nature, to the larger world. And all that connection begins with the core connection, the one that is the foundation for personal growth: connecting into ourselves in the body in the moment...
The Centre of Attention (June 12, 2010)
Are you ever the centre of your attentIon? I know I know - we don't want to be selfish and we don't want to be seen as self absorbed... but still... What if you were allowed to be the focus of your full attention? Just for a few moments. Once a day perhaps. What if you could let yourself tune in to the...
Growing from the ground (June 5, 2010)
Tendrils tumbling like morning glory, escaping the cramped confines of the hairclip atop my head. Bare toes wiggling like earthworms in neon orange crocs, itching to feel the crumbly soft soil. Branches of happiness growing up and out of my chest, blossoming in a smile that lights my eyes. A deep exhale...
Approach Your Pain (May 29, 2010)
I have an ear infection and it hurts. The lip of my ear near my TM joint is swollen and I feel it every time I open my mouth. It itches. It has distorted my hearing out of that ear and I feel off-balance. I think I am talking funny - sometimes louder and sometimes quieter. It makes everything I eat and...
Listen for your call (May 15, 2010)
Dissonance is a feeling of anxiety in the body that is your unique and personal call to growth. It is a message of your human vulnerability, speaking the difficult truth of limits to personal control over outcomes that matter to you. There is an urge is to move away from ourselves when we feel dissonance...