Category: Mindfulness
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Serendipity
Year ago, working in a large community hospital, I was invited to join the local Rotary Club. It was the right thing to do professionally and I enjoyed getting to know a great group of people committed to an agenda of good works. I was asked, sometime early in my membership, to introduce myself to…
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Inner Voices
Many of us, if not most of us, play tapes of the voices from moments in our past in our heads. These are not the “you can do it, you got this” messages, these are not the “wow, you are so good at this” voices. They are the voices that question and criticize and erode…
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Finding Enough
When I teach yoga, as many yoga teachers do, I start with a theme for our practice and I end with a few minutes of guided meditation as my students relax into their final savasana. Given the fact that I primarily teach older adults in either a long term care or assisted living setting, my…
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Forgiveness
If you asked me, I would tell you that I am a person who believes strongly in forgiveness, that we have to have understanding and we have to let go of things. But, when I take a long, hard look inside, I know that’s not entirely true. And that may be an understatement. I certainly…
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Filling the Space
How often I say the words “life changes in the space between one heartbeat and the next.” Many, if not all of us, have learned the truth of those words. We learn that truth in pain, in grief, in trauma. We struggle to accept the reality of loss, battling between our rational mind that knows…
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Light somewhere
Someone asked me yesterday what I was like as a child. Was I petulant, rebellious, compliant? What words would I use to describe myself? It was a question that I both felt I should be able to answer instantly and one that I really had to think about for a moment. How would I describe…
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Finding Fierce
We had the gift of a vacation for the last week. Not just the “at home” vacation that we often have that finds me with more projects than time and not the “visit the kids” vacation which is always a busy whirlwind and never long enough. Nope, this was a real vacation away from our…
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Think of it as
There were many times when my kids were young and small things went awry. We were on our long-awaited amusement park vacation and it was pouring rain. Our flights were delayed and we had to spend an unexpected night away. We are all very familiar with this kind of situation, when things don’t always turn…
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Carrying On
After my brother died, in what can only be described as a tragic, and senseless, accident, my grief knew no bounds. I functioned but I know that I was a shadow of myself for a long time. We had the gift of being the best of friends in addition to being siblings and we had…
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Horse of a Different Color
What does how we look say about us? What does it say in a professional context and what does it say in a personal context? We live in a world where the sweat pants culture has become the absolute norm. And, don’t get me wrong, leggings are a part of my life every single day.…
With a Full Heart 