Bleary eyed or bushy tailed?

Bleary eyed or bushy tailed?

I can always tell when my friend has had a sleepless night with her toddlers. Beyond the obvious yawning there’s a general droopiness and lack of sparkle. She has good reason to be sleep-deprived and she reminds me that, eventually, this experience will pass. (Not...
Ships’ Masts and Teacups

Ships’ Masts and Teacups

“Like the mast of a ship” they said. “Imagine your back, your body, your whole backbody being like the mast of a ship. Tall, straight, unbending yet supporting the ship to stay upright.” I like this metaphor (from a cranio-sacral practitioner) and while it doesn’t...
Under pressure

Under pressure

“Under pressure, we don’t rise to the level of our expectations,  we fall to the level of our practices.”* I’d never really thought about how I reacted under pressure until my training  at Strozzi Institute. Years of therapy had given me an intellectual ...
 An invitation to pause

 An invitation to pause

As I sit with a blank page, it’s tempting to invite AI to give me a starting place (and occasionally it does) but today there’s a sense of being nudged to wait until something forms. So I wait…. What comes in the pause is something to share and celebrate. I don’t...
New beginnings

New beginnings

New beginnings: a blank page, a fresh planner, a crisp new year striding in with perfect posture and no emotional baggage whatsoever. If only. January 1st usually arrives dragging along the same old body, the same (now overflowing) inbox, perhaps a slightly fuzzy head...
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