Rely on Your Strength
As we move into the next phase of recovery, many of us are suffering from anxiety. I think it’s because we know it’s time to move forward but we don’t know what to expect. We also can’t be sure that we’re not going to cause more harm to ourselves or to others. My morning meditation […]
Love in The Dark Night of the Soul
“Real love always involves a transgression.” George Bataille It’s always important to start and end with love even when we’re conditioned otherwise. Like, how we deal with this strange heaviness about us. This dark night of the soul. Any experience of darkness needs to be looked at with love or else we might get lost, […]
Coping with Grief and Fear
I lost my husband in November after 25 years of marriage. I’ve joined a bereavement group on line and realize that there are so many people suffering. Grief and fear have always been part of the human experience but now with the virus, we are facing these emotions globally. I’m learning that emotions like grief […]
The Excruciating Present
Even those of us who practice meditation and a contemplative way of life are struggling in this crisis. In this moment of social isolation, we confront ourselves and our immortality. We are slowly realizing that there is no future as we know it, future does not exist. We are faced with the absolute now of […]
Managing Love and Sex While Isolated
In this post, I talk about love and sexual energy with a single woman in quarantine living in Madrid, one of the friendliest cities in the world now raging with the Corona virus. Sexual energy is an essential life force concentrated in two energy centers in our body, the Root Chakra and the Sacral Chakra. […]
Love in the Time of Social Distancing
In this time of social distancing, I’ve started experimenting with erotic writing. Sex is about procreation and love needs to survive. I think love and survival are the two things we are thinking about incessantly. My husband died in November. He was my best friend. Now, months later, the virus has the rest of the […]
If you’re wondering what mindfulness is really about
Mindfulness is really about love. Love and creativity. I know these are foolish, simple words these days, but sometimes it’s that worn out picture book in the library that speaks truth… generation after generation. When we choose the practice of mindfulness coupled with a daily, contemplative discipline like meditation, we are cultivating our capacity to […]
Diversifying Our Portfolio: Building Resilience and Equity
Wise financial advisors tell us to diversify our portfolio. It offers us long term benefits, reduces risk and increases the potential to perform in a changing market. A fixed mind set with any bias for one type of investment over another can be our downfall. Everybody wants to prevent loss and increase their equity. After […]
Catharsis: Applying Critical Mindfulness to Oral Histories
“Interactions in the environment lead to reciprocal transformation which strengthens individual and collective agency.” Many people ask what distinguishes my work and my approach. I think this is a hard question because I am evolving daily. Still, I am beginning to understand that I am most interested in freedom in action, on the application of […]
For Working Class, Mindfulness is a Gimmick
When I called my colleague and told him the title of my new book, he told me I had sold out. Sold out? I snapped. I’ve been unemployed for years, while you’re sitting easy in a tenured teacher position. He snickered and told me to calm down. Yesterday, they towed my ten-year-old car away after […]