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a Misty Mindfulness Moment Let your body settle into whatever support it has right nowa chair, the floor, a blanket wrapped around your knees.Let yourself be held by gravity for a while. You don’t have to fix your breath or posture.Just be here with yourself. Let’s shift our attention to the breathnot to change it, but to stay with it.InhaleExhaleEach breath an anchor.A reminder that you’re still here,still breathing, […]
Ignoring isn’t neutral, it’s active disconnection, it’s withdrawal with intent. It means I have already made the choice to stop reaching for you. When you care, you stay engaged even when it’s messy or gets intense. Because to some people, communication is commitment. It’s doesn’t have a hidden agenda nor is it manipulation. When someone ignores you, it might seem like they don’t understand what it means to love […]
because it awakens something real. it’s terrifying AND it’s also freeing AND it is life altering in the best way possible at its core without the judgments and assumptions attached beyond it.
When it’s everything all at once, people get overwhelmed just hearing about it. They can’t hold the weight or the complexity, so they start thinking you must be the problem instead of realizing the problem is really the sheer amount of weight. If you tell the whole truth, it sounds like too much. If you don’t, people accuse you of hiding something. So you’re stuck managing their reactions on […]
You’re right here. Still breathing and tryingand loving and still showing upEven when everything hurtsor even when there’sno clear next step So what do you do? You stay with yourselfYou do the next thingNot the whole planor the forever fixJust the next simple thing You let yourself hate that it’s like thisYou let the grief come through without shameYou stop pretending that what happened wasn’t realYou stop doubting and […]
Why do so many unconsciously or even consciously uphold a twisted value system that has made emotional expression a liability, vulnerability into a weakness, and has framed conflict as failure rather than something that can lead to understanding and growth? Peace has become about quiet and not about truth, about compliance and not authenticity. Healing has started to look like emotional detachment and not integration. The people who suppress […]
being present or mindful isn’t just for othersit’s most meaningful when it’s with your own selfit’s that moment when you actually notice your own breathingwhen you notice your thoughts instead of getting lost in themwhen you feel your body and recognize that you’re here, that it’s you being present and being mindful is being receivedeven by yourselfyou aren’t just reactingyou notice yourself beingyou acknowledge your own self
was it too much to just want love?love that stays when i’m falling apartlove that stays when i make mistakeslove that stays when i question the shamewas it too much to just want to be held?held in times of sadness and despairheld in ways that did not feel like painheld in arms that feel like warmth in the rainwas it too much to just want someone there?someone who truly […]
sometimes unresolved pain rises up in us asking for wholenessnot by forcing control or simply enduringbut by surrendering and breaking freethe new path may be dark and unclearit asks for a new kind of strengthit asks for a new kind of courageit asks for a new definitiona new meaninga new beinga new lifeanew anewagain and againonce more but deeperonce more but strongeragain and more and freefree to be who […]
How could I go onWhen I have already seen the endWhere love is never enoughAnd staying is just pretendHow could I get byWhen pain is all that staysWhere hope is another knifeThat twists itself every dayHow could I have peaceWhen peace is never freeWhere it gets tradedFor a life that doesn’t see i have always lived in the darkand i have always lived in the lightand i have seen […]