During this morning’s meditation, my thoughts led me, as pretty usual, to planning. I felt doubt (which is also pretty usual being me) about how to proceed on certain matters. What is the best course of action? How can I make this as smooth as possible? With as little unpleasantness as possible? I am a …
This morning we all got up from bed a little too late. I think we are all fighting some bug so our bodies were so heavy against the soft mattress. A few years ago, getting up too late would have thrown my nervous system into total panic mode, throwing me into the realm of “not …
Starting your own business can be rough. I think everyone knows it takes a lot of time and effort to get things up and running. You prepare your business plan, establish your services, provide them, and reach out to potential clients, and so on. I knew the way wouldn’t be straight or easy following my …
We enter psychotherapy because we are suffering. Suffering can take many forms: may it be feeling low, reoccurring headaches, or overwhelming anxiety to name a few examples. The suffering, however strange this may sound, is a perfect manifestation of what is going on, a clue to the past, and a doorway to the future. How …
Coping with pain or suffering is often a process beyond our conscious thought. We often, especially at the beginning of our healing journey, don’t know exactly how we are behaving and how that came to be. Yes, there are many coping strategies out there that we can use to soothe or help ourselves; here I …
Since I was pregnant, I’m suffering from an injury in my hip. I’m trying to sort it out with help from a physiotherapist and during my first visit she asked me to explain how the pain feels. Like many times before I’m struck by how arbitrary it is to describe pain: “It feels like lightning …
There is so much information out there on all matters possible; some information is based on good-quality research and some on opinions and feelings and everything in between. In this era of information, I, and I believe many with me, sometimes get stuck in wanting to know what “the right” information is. I want an …
I often attend intensive meditation retreats. The word “retreat” however is quite misleading. Not wrong, but does not tell the whole story. The word “retreat” makes me think about retreating from something, as I would be hiding or protecting myself from enemy forces. But when retreating, where have you wound up? A meditation retreat in …
I’m sure we have all experienced some bad news being delivered to us and immediately an emotional reaction takes place and we lash out: “How can this be?!”, “This can’t be right!”, “What the h*ll are you saying?!”. We want to yell at the news deliverer, let her/him know the depths of our fury, disapproval …
We humans like to think about things in categories of good or bad, or right and wrong. To put things into categories so we can more easily understand and get some sort of control over things. If I think I know something, it becomes less threatening. If I think I master something, it becomes less …
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