Practicing Self-Compassion
Click here to sign up for Restorative Yoga with Thai Massage this Thursday, 7-8 pm. Last week week in class while we stretched, relaxed, breathed, and meditated, we talked about a little metaphor to help us see our lives, including the places where we felt broken or flawed, as opportunities to leak love and light into the world. We took time to listen to that inner voice of Love and asked the question, "How I can see my life, including the broken places, with different eyes
Leaking Love
I was recently talking with a friend and like all good conversations with good friends, it was all over the place and back again. Mostly the gist of our ramblings kept coming back to both our successes and failures as parents, as friends, as spouses, and just as humans in general. I have been a bit of a perfectionist my whole life, a bit Type A (ok, a lot), often intense, so my self talk has not always been very healthy. By and large the tapes that replay in my head want t
Taking a break from "The age of noise"
More than 70 years ago, the English writer Aldous Huxley wrote that modernity is the "age of noise." At the time he was writing about the latest technology, the simple radio, whose noise he said "penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractions." If he could only see the noise we are dealing with now. Between devices that never leave our person, social media, tweets, sensationalized news, "fake news", a new crisis every moment in the media and having a general ina
