Falling in Love With Vulnerability to Experience a Wholehearted Life
When you make banana bread, it ends up with those little magical black lines in it. They are always spread throughout and organized so precisely. They are how you know it’s real and that it shall be...
View ArticleOur Un-Psychic Audience: Reclaiming the Weight We Put On Magic’s Shoulders
Do you think about the way you communicate with the people that you expect to receive your art? If we want to publicize ourselves, we need to think about what it is we are putting out there, especially...
View ArticleThe Process of Pathologizing Among New Healers: Let’s Get Clear.
Many of us are healers of various types. We want to heal with our words, our hands, our songs, our science. We want to heal and help, and this is so natural to us. Or so it seems. Sometimes, we have a...
View ArticleCorporations, Consistency, & Expectations: Lessons From Home-Made Stuffing
Thanksgiving happened, and for the first time in my life I ate home made stuffing. Usually my grandma makes it with the perfectly square packaged croutons, and she adds butter and things, but this time...
View ArticleMini-Post: Bringing Life to the Dead Zones of Routine
I’m experimenting with a mini post. Life is all about trying new things, right? Today Enjoy Life For Once’s Facebook status was: Pick a routine today, especially a dull one. Doing the dishes, tidying...
View ArticleThe “Enjoy Life” Mission is Not to be “Happy”
I’m not sure what the title of my blog causes people to assume, but I don’t, by any means, “enjoy life” all of the time. I feel like there is actually a very devastating and stressful pressure to...
View ArticleChecking Stats: The Deception & Addictiveness of Simplicity
I noticed an interesting event a few mornings ago when I looked at the clock the second I returned from a dog walk. “Aw, 10:15 already?” I said, but a nanosecond before looking at the numbers, my mind...
View ArticleMini-Post: 32 Flavors of Judgement
I was a bit proud of a post on my blog’s Facebook page a few days ago. It went a little like this: If I judge myself based on the eyes of society, I fail because there are too many opinions. If I judge...
View ArticleWill it Ever Feel Like Christmas Again?
The older I get, there are more sad associations build up around holidays. Especially this year because it’s 80 degrees, my nuclear family is a few thousand miles away, and hearts are broken all over...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions: Are You On the Bus or Off the Bus?
A lot of us make New Years Resolutions. There’s something lovely about them. A fresh start with no real conflicting feelings. Other holidays have a different charge. Thanksgiving can make my stomach...
View ArticleHarness Your Inner Opposite Day!
The other day I had this thought, and it has turned out to be a really useful one. To set the stage, it was late at night. I fell asleep reading in a cozy bed with a dog at my feet. I believe my mind...
View ArticleWhat Am I Doing Wrong? (or, You Can’t Outrun Something That Hovers)
This is a thought that is sprinkled in some of my days like corn syrup is sprinkled into the average American diet. It’s not the centerpiece by any means, but as soon as you start reading labels, you...
View ArticleEvaluating Emoticons: Sometimes They Deserve Respect
Recently I offended someone by mistake. I made a comment that was far too ambiguous. In my mind, it was a compliment. In their mind, it was an insult. I used to use emoticons far too often....
View ArticlePermission for Transitions
We all know how we generally “are” in the world. There are some aspects of our personalities that we consider strengths, others as weaknesses. Sometimes we put effort into trying to grow. But what...
View ArticleInterior Decoration for the Room for Mistakes
I don’t know how much of this is obvious through my writing, but I am a micro-managing anxiety-stricken person in may situations. Being the “leader” of a therapeutic team changes a lot of that. Now may...
View ArticleWhy I Love Loving What I Hate (AKA, Reality Doesn’t Pick Sides)
A lot of my favorite people had a hard time growing up. Some of us were made fun of by our friends, some had abusive family situations, some suffered real hunger and fear of imminent death and some...
View ArticleRunning Toilet: The Rorschach of Household Problems
The other day, the toilet at my part-time house was running for too long. I had to turn the water off, and figure out what was wrong. I gave my dad a play-by-play of the situation over the phone as I...
View ArticleValentine’s Day: Four Steps to Make It Hurt Less
Valentine’s Day is coming, and if there’s one thing I know about this day of red and chocolate, it’s that it can be a big let-down. Whether you are single, in a relationship, married, or divorced, it...
View ArticleCuriosity, Meet Convenience: Hidden Stories
Remember that feeling in middle school where you introduce a friend to your parents, and you feel torn in half as you suddenly realize there are different and sometimes incompatible versions of...
View ArticleWhat Are Fears Afraid Of?
Recently, a few things happened. One is, I learned to relate to some aggressive sheep dogs. The other is that I played an open mic. I’m realizing that working with fear is less about solving a mystery...
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