I have talked in this blog about a long, dark time in my life when I was 300 – 350 pounds. You don’t get to that kind of weight without having some serious binge eating disorder. I have struggled for years with compulsive overeating – and it truly is compulsive. It is something I do… Continue reading My First Addiction
What an unnoticed miracle the breath is. It is effortless. You didn’t ask for it. You didn’t will it. You didn’t work for it. You need it, and it’s there. You need it to carry away what you can’t use, and there it goes. What if it mirrors how so many of the things you… Continue reading All On Its Own Meditation
Meditation was a huge leap of faith for me. You have to do it a long, long time to get the sense that it’s working. And then, you have no control group, so it’s hard to say that it’s helping. Did I react better because I’ve been meditating? Or did I just happen to be… Continue reading A Leap of Faith
We think we all know what we’re talking about when we talk about sleep, but really we all have a different idea of what this universal need means for us. We humans, with our things to do and life stresses, have maybe a more complicated relationship with sleep than our animal friends. Every individual has… Continue reading I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Let’s all give ourselves credit – those of us that survived COVID, we just lived through our World War II. An event so monumental, a moment in time so paradigm-shifting, that we will forever speak of a pre-COVID world, and a post-COVID world. Actually, it’s more like if WWII did it with the Industrial Revolution.… Continue reading If WWII Did It with the Industrial Revolution
Recently I marked the second anniversary of the death of my beloved cat, Barnacle Pete. Wasn’t he handsome? I know, this bougie white childless lady is obsessing about her cats way too much. As Groucho Marx says, “I resemble that remark.” Hey, we’re all working with what we’ve got. Pete was a friend who was… Continue reading When Bad Things Happen
This is a great meditation for when you’re confronted with a problem you can’t solve with your own will, big or small. Maybe it’s an irretrievable loss, like the death of someone you care about. A disappointment at work. Someone you care about whose behavior you want to control, but can’t. If you are struggling… Continue reading Acceptance/Resistance Meditation
