The Right Distance from Family
Whether we connect with our parents every day, once a year, or not at all, we can reduce the internal charge we carry toward them.
Appears in the book Embodying Hope
Balance for Your Inner Guardian
As your Inner Guardian becomes more integrated into the present, you can offer a more balanced, skillful response to present-time threats.
Resonate With Loneliness
Every time we turn toward our own experience with warmth, we strengthen our Inner Nurturer.
Practice Kind Language
When we practice non-ableist language, it gives us more room to be imperfect humans, internally and externally.
Offer a Collaborative Story
When we invite people to be on the same side with collaborative stories, we open the door to more connection in our lives.
Depression: Natural Response to Trauma
You are not broken. Your responses make sense. As you find ways to sit with inner terror and misery and loneliness for as long as they are there, they will gradually shift and make room for new feelings.
Your Body Is Your Ally
When you tend to your body with generous care, you practice feeling better and receiving kindness right now.
Embody Hunger, Embody Fullness
To connect more directly with our bodies just as they are right now, we can bring more awareness to eating, hunger, and fullness.
Add Ease to Anniversaries
When we can be a kind witness for our hurting selves, we can disentangle painful feelings from the time of year that brings them up.
How to Resist Enough
Resisting oppression can be affirmative, creative, connected, nourishing.