This is the second in my ongoing series of reflections on the idea of a “soft life” and what it could mean to create a life with more sustainability, honesty, and room to breathe. I’ve …
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Toward a Softer Life, Part Two: Worthy of Tending
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Learning to Listen to My Body
For much of my life, I thought caring for my body meant learning to control it. I grew up surrounded by images and messages that taught me what a woman’s body should look like. Thinness …
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Toward a Softer Life
This is the first in an ongoing series of reflections on the idea of a “soft life” and what it could mean to create a life with more sustainability, honesty, and room to breathe. I’ve …
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The Space Between What Was and What’s Next
These days, there is a lot to take in. And alongside everything happening around us in the world, life continues to shift in personal ways we don’t always expect. Some changes we welcome. Some we …
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Where Imagination Begins
I’ve been thinking about imagination lately. Not in a big, creative, “what can I make?” kind of way. Rather, the quieter aspects of imagination have captured my, well….. imagination. How imagination shapes the way we …
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Begin Where Your Feet Are
The world has been a lot. Most of us don’t need that explained. We feel it in our bodies before we can put words to it. A low hum of urgency, fatigue, grief, and concern …
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Living with Fear Without Turning Away
Fear is part of being human. Long before we put language to it, fear lives in the body. It shows up as tightened shoulders, shallow breath, a racing heart, or the sudden desire to disappear. …
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Ripples of Generosity
Generosity isn’t just a nice idea. It’s a quiet, transformative experience that often shows up when we least expect it. In a world that pushes us to armor up and mask our vulnerabilities, generosity asks …
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Holding the Thread
“The only constant in life is change.” Those words, spoken by Heraclitus more than two thousand years ago, still ring true today. Change is part of being human. Sometimes we choose it. Sometimes it chooses …
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Reflections on Forgiveness
Hurts come in all shapes and sizes. In fact, we all endure small hurts almost on a daily basis. We’re cut off in traffic. A friend doesn’t return our call. Our partner eats the last …
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