Words from Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese. My heart wants to read these words over and over this week. These past few months the busy part of myself has been showing up. And I can feel my body calling for rest, a reminder that I am a part of this wonderful wild earth and it’s ok to be still.
-Christy
Family Therapy
This Morning…
I am imperfect…
a work in progress…
a fresh start every day.
I am already full of life,
and seeking definition and clarity,
always circling back to the heart…
Hello Resistant Part
Hello Resistant Part
I have a Resistant Part of myself. When I meditate on it, this part seems as if it’s as old as dirt…that it has been with me most of my life protecting me from experiencing stories that my brain has deemed unsafe in the past…
A Fairy Tale…
I was recently invited to try writing a fairy tale. Here were the instructions: Start with “once upon a time,” imagine yourself as the main character, and just let it flow out. Here is what I came up with…
Yes, and…
I am here because… I want to love me. I want to love life… even the parts I don’t want. I want to accept that I will never be done trying to love all the parts. This is not a fight to the death… and it also is. And I see I am not alone,…
New scientific study on spanking… are we asking the right questions?
A few years ago I would have immediately lept onto my high horse after reading this article about the new ground-breaking scientific study on spanking, which states that five decades of research on children that were spanked shows spanking in fact doesn’t improve behavior or have positive long-term impact on a child’s life. A…
Who is attached to whom?
I always imagined that staying at home with my sweet baby boy would be a dream come true. However, as I look back and think about it, I can see that I was at a complete loss much of the time. I was grasping at straws, trying to control everything by making spreadsheets of breastfeeding…
