Browsing the archives for the chronic pain/illness category
Browsing the archives for the chronic pain/illness category
Since I’m having trouble posting regularly lately, I realized that I should occasionally share what I’m writing in my online class discussions. We recently discussed mourning as a spiritual process of “letting go” and this was my response:
Much of my concept of “letting go” and grieving comes from the health crisis which ended my [...]
Stumbling through the forest in search of the path to healing, I discovered that the very act of moving my body can be healing. Not just the cumulative effect of regular exercise which is the focus of medical research, but in the very moment that I am moving. I found that my intention [...]
While I’ve been having a lot of good experiences, it’s been a long time since I tried something new. For the past few days, I have participated in a series of Feldenkrais classes. I first learned of the method years ago and had it on my list of things I wanted to explore [...]
What can ya say when you’ve been off the grid for a good four months! I just couldn’t let my birthday go by without a peep here. Yeah, after all that turning-40 hullabaloo last year, I nearly let 41 go by unmentioned. But really the silence speaks volumes. It’s been a [...]
I’ve always been interested in aspects of psychology, but the study and science of it left something to be desired. One of the things that turned me off was the focus on identifying and labeling disorders. I was happy to discover a relatively recent development, positive psychology, “the scientific study of the strengths [...]