Pain is so much more complicated than most of us realize. First, pain is so much more than just pain. There are countless terms, learnings, treatments, ideas, and practices to manage it with new ones seeming to be birthed nearly daily. A major distinction in classification is whether the pain is considered acute or chronic. […]
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We seek familiarity, not happiness. Just sit with that for a while. Our brains, our bodies, our entire being is solely concerned with surviving this moment, then the next moment, and the moment after that. We fundamentally don’t understand how we work, or how our brains work. Our brains aren’t really for thinking—thinking about what
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It all depends upon which way the wind blows. Am I really this fragile? Is my physical and mental health really so dependent upon which way the wind blows? No, really, I’m asking. I had a week of summer hiking planned, beginning with a Monday drive up to our cabin. We have a cabin. Can’t
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Life is a river (through a steep walled canyon). It is change. It moves and flows and grows and feeds and destroys and creates. It is a river that shares selflessly. When it destroys it is not evil, when it creates it is not more kind. It never runs dry until it runs dry. When
I learned recently that emotions are simply a fleeting cascade of chemical processes in the body that last for about a minute and a half. Ninety seconds to ripple ebb and flow through us. Yet, I can promise you that I seem to get stuck on a feeling quite often for what seems like an
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Words are powerful. The human brain is powerful. Unconscious, semi-conscious, and conscious—all of these states house hidden omnipotence. We have learned that it is much more productive to phrase things in the affirmative rather than the negative, especially for self-work. It is better to strive to increase connection and calm than to try to minimize
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Today, I’m writing about something that’s been bouncing around in my head for years: how to begin leveraging this multi-year project of blog posts to be even more useful for me and for others. Of course, contained in that is my assumption that it’s useful. I need to work out the technical challenges, but I
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Yesterday was a difficult day. I’ve had a lot of them lately. I’m not fishing for sympathy; I’m just allowing the stewing challenges I have going on inside my body and brain to see the light and be shared with people that I know care, including people that would likely read this blog. Sharing really
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Unpacking who I am has been a lifelong project. It can feel disorienting. I cycle through the stages of denial in seeming perpetuity. Things become crystal clear and then morph into a dystopian B-movie dream sequence. Depression? Anxiety? Fear? Self-doubt? Sure, maybe? Attachment to false permanence? I can’t tell if I secretly desire to become
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I’ve been thinking about this post for quite a while. It seems more relevant every day. It seems more obvious, more vital, more impossible, more simple as well! There is no try, do or do not. The world is becoming more depersonalized, more digital, more tribal, more angry, more corporate, more artificial intelligence and less
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