A New Low
For the past months, intractable insomnia has drastically diminished my ability to function. Circling the drain is the best I can do. My therapist encouraged me to address chronic back…
For the past months, intractable insomnia has drastically diminished my ability to function. Circling the drain is the best I can do. My therapist encouraged me to address chronic back…
Several things occurred last week to escalate my despair. And the thing which hurt the most, was the secondary feeling. You see, any time, I am in pain, or struggle…
What if I had grown up with even one single person who saw me, heard me, was kind and compassionate and DECIDED that I was worth understanding, worthy of peace…
Month after month of: Serenity + Flow- easy and magical flow- we were convinced this has not been done before, that we invented this way of being together- as we…
I have been struggling to share about the untraditional nature of my relationship, which is by far the only profoundly satisfying one I have known - a magical combination of…
There’s so much to unpack from the last few months. I was sick for an unusually long 17 days with something that wasn’t the flu or COVID. There was a…
One Monday morning in January, after the boys finally returned to school, I headed to the gym under blue skies and sunny mid-50s, with almost no traffic. Suddenly, a BMW…
The concept of being categorically and inherently wrong is new to me. I see how labeling an individual or group this way can lead others to feel justified in acting…
Having been raised in an system in which love (access to connection and protection) could be earned, lost, and withheld, I did not fare well. It is my belief that…
From my earliest days, my high sensitivity to sensory and emotional impact (and therefore differing needs) were identified as trouble-making, a betrayal, a burden, a lack of gratitude, shameful, punishable. …