Blog Topic: Weight
Our Story
Start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet, your own way to begin the conversation. from Start Close In by David Whyte That’s what we did. We started close in with long time friends and colleagues. With our own hearts and minds. ...
Felt Sense Prayer
This is a lovey prayer to say before or after doing the Compassionate Body Scan Guided Meditation I am the pain in your head, the knot in your stomach, the unspoken grief in your smile. I am your high blood sugar, your elevated blood pressure, your fear of challenge,...
The Way It Is
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get...
One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
One morning we will wake up and forget to build that wall we’ve been building, the one between us the one we’ve been building for years, perhaps out of some sense of right and boundary, perhaps out of habit. One morning we will wake up and let our empty hands hang...
My Self-Compassion Journey
In 2014 I found myself at a week long intensive training in Mindful Self-Compassion on Whidbey Island, Washington and the trajectory of my life changed. The practices resonated deeply and challenged my inner self-critic that had been running the show for too long. I...
Letting Go of Striving
MSC is about building resources, skills, and strengths to face our human imperfections with loving, connected presence. It takes courage to embark on the practice of Mindful Self-Compassion. Choosing to learn how to respond to ourselves with kindness and compassion...
Health Benefits of Self-Compassion
Self-criticism does more than make us feel badly. It is actually bad for our health. Self-Criticism activates the nervous threat response system stimulating the hormones designed to help us deal with danger through a ‘fight, fight or freeze’. When our threat...
Letting Go
“I think most of the spiritual life is really a matter of letting go, ceasing to cling, ceasing to insist on our own way, ceasing to tense ourselves up for this or against that.” Beatrice Bruteau
The Art of Meditation: The Fly by Hanjin Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtrogq9vMA
The Power of Listening
LIstening helps us understand the other. helps us connect with the other. makes it more likely that the other will listen to us. may be the cheapest concession we can make. may be the golden key to opening the door to human relationships. ...