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Lucky
How lucky am I to have eyes so that I can see the stars. How lucky am I to have a mom who still sends me sweet love notes. How lucky am I to have…
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My Hair Has Seen It All
The ends of my hair have seen so many memories. They have blown in the wind while standing on top of a vast, beautiful mountain in Argentina. They have have laid on friends’ shoulders as…
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Finally Admitting
There is sometimes so much power in admitting things. I often find myself wanting to say that I’m depressed, anxious, or overwhelmed, but there is this other voice that tells me that I should also…
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Set The Table
Set the table. Use the fancy plates. Make a drink. Celebrate. Cheers. Invite others. What are we waiting for?
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Rationality: Home of The Mind or The Heart?
Many of us in modern, Western society like to say that our feelings are irrational. They are illogical, unreasonable, foolish… When, in fact, our feelings are not irrational at all. They’re probably our best source…
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Relax Your Tongue
maybe the peace that I keep trying to grasp to remember to hold on to so tightly has always just been the grace that I could be giving myself when I stop grasping relax your…
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Atoms
My body is made of atoms that have been around for years The same atoms that have made the trees, flowers, and mountains before me They now are formed in a perfect manner made by…
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Film Pictures
I think I’ve spent the last four years trying to figure out who I would be without the influence of my family, the people around me, the media, society… Like if I grew up on…
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Worries
The funny part is you never had anything to worry about in the first place. The funny this is when you think you are falling apart, you never are.
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Umbrellas
Little birds find food on the floor next to lovely couples having a glass of wine. An awning covers them as the rain falls here in the cloudy Basque country. A person sets up his…
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We Are Never “Doing it Wrong”
Maybe we never need to learn anything new Maybe we have always had the answers in us in our gut reactions in our intuiotons in our deepest feelings Maybe we don’t ever have to think…
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Thank You, Sadness
Revelation: I feel the most connected to myself when I feel sad. After I’ve gone through a really hard time. I realized this last night when I was thinking back to 2022 & 2023 and…
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It’s All Stories
We can’t control anything besides what we tell ourselves (aka the story we tell ourselves). We are always creating stories, whether we know it or not. It’s what makes us homo sapiens. And since we…
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Of Course
Of course you feel like this. Of course you’re angry. Of course your devestated. Of course your terrified. Sometimes, when our critical or anxious voice has been in control of our minds for too long…
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Touches
To feel is to touch something, right? Something outside of our own skin? When we reach out our hands to rub a soft blanket or grasp a hot cup of tea, we feel it with…
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Take Pictures of Little Beauties
My soul just wants to be here. To taste. Sense. Feel. Love. Hug. Cry. Experience life. Breathe. See it all. Shower people with love. Discover. Try. Learn. Why else does life come to earth?
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Can We Trust Our Brains?
I was thinking last night before bed that our humans brains, although capture so much our our attention, perspectives, and views of reality, are barely big enough to remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday.…
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True Integrity – Real or Bullshit?
I’m feeling lost. Still. God dammit. I can feel myself getting mad for losing my way again. But then I ask: aren’t we all a little lost? Do we ever truly know for sure what…
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Lemon Seeds
To squeeze the marrow out of life like we squeeze the juice out of a lemon means we will inevitably encounter some seeds along the way. But these seeds are nourishment, too – they hold…
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A Note To Our “Best” Selves
Sometimes I look at some books on my shelf and I get so mad. When I’m feeling light, confident, and grounded, I buy books that let me connect deeper to myself. Books that open my…
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A Story About A Maid
I watched Maid yesterday. It was about a young, southern woman who, after continuous emotional abuse by her boyfriend, finally has the courage to leave and take on a year’s worth of a struggle to…
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A Day Where I Felt Really Happy
I was at the ranch in Patagonia, walking in the mountains with only my backpack, some water, and the sun on my face. It was windy but the sun made me feel hot beneath my…
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Deeply Satisfied
It feels so good to be deeply satisfied sitting in some sadness, like a hot bath with some drops of tears, surrounded like a big hug of water, than it ever has been aiming relentlessly…
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Evolution Just Wants To Play
What made the first organisms come out of the water onto land? Curiosity. Play. Exploration. What made the first organisms grow legs and eyes? Curiosity. Play. Exploration. Today, we think of play as frivolous. Unnecessary.…
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It Should Feel Like Dancing
To work with “God” means to be in a dance with the universe. They give you an opportunity, you take it and dance with it. Make it something even more beautiful. We must create with…
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Admitting Pain
Next time your in pain, recognize and say, “I’m in pain.” Rather than trying to fix it, put the focus on the compassion rather than the pain. Overtime, that will become your refuge.
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The 20 Second Trick
Breathing is the answer to thinking. To doubts. To criticism. While we can’t of course stop thinking all together, taking 20 seconds to just simply breathe and not think takes me almost 75% of the…
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Let Go Of Self-Will
So, here is a secret: You don’t have to do anything. You don’t actually have any self-will in life. You are being led to your most good, authentic, connected life. The life that your soul…
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Relinquish The Pressure
Sometimes it makes me mad how little my brain can process or notice things. Sometimes I keep telling myself how I want to work on this, fix that, change this, get better at that. But…
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Cells
Something is pushing new nails from my finger beds. Something is healing over the cuts on my skin. My cells are doing the work but how are they getting the energy to do it all?…
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