We live in a world that encourages backwards thinking. Trained to use our rational minds and to look outside ourselves for direction, we ignore the guidance of our body. The sun streamed through the kitchen window this morning. The warm inviting tendrils wrapped themselves around me like a lost lover.…
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We don’t often think of imagination and healing at the same time. But our imagination can be a powerful ally on our behalf when we learn how to use it. I awoke this morning feeling anything but peace. Still on the mend after dental work last week, I reluctantly crawled…
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Sometimes it just takes guts. Sometimes we can’t think our way to a solution. We can’t whine our way to the answer. We can’t emote our way to healing. Sometimes it just takes guts and putting one foot in front of the other and doing the thing we think we…
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REACHING When I bent down to pick up the pieces of my life, I shoved my hands into the black soot of death and reached through the bitter haze of unspent emotions, to find fragments of me, inert, motionless and suffocating. * When I bent down to pick up the…
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The unfolding of consciousness sometimes feels like a runaway freight train…and I’m just hanging on for dear life. Ah, but what a ride! My only regret is that I got on board so late in life. On the other hand, my life’s path that led me to this point carries…
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Writing is one of my best defenses against the darkness as I endeavor to live a life free of PTSD symptoms. Sometimes things get in the way and interrupt the quiet time I need to write. Last week, my computer broke and I spent several hours getting it up and…
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