by TAadministrator | Aug 4, 2015 | Brain
Will that donut taste as good as I imagine it? Will my new lover be as good as I imagine him to be? Will the Rolling Stones be as amazing as I have imagined them for the last 25 years? One of the tricks that I found myself using towards the end of my failing marriage,...
by TAadministrator | Jul 21, 2015 | Brain, Mindfulness
Day two of my vacation and although I’m jetlagged, I’m feeling profoundly relaxed. Partly it’s because I’ve been lying down and reading novels, drinking tea, eating bread, cheese, hiking, spending time with my loving family. I’ve been considering why I find it so...
by TAadministrator | Jun 16, 2015 | Brain
Learning how to define ourselves not in reference to others is, I believe, a fundamental life skill. Doing things because they are right for you and not because you feel you ought to because your parents, partner, sibling told you to or did it themselves. It’s too...
by TAadministrator | Jun 8, 2015 | Brain, Mindfulness
Friday I turned 39. My life has changed dramatically in the last year. A year ago, I was living in a very unhappy marriage, trying to keep it all together for my children’s sake, but increasingly realizing that I was not happy, deep within myself. Now I’m...
by TAadministrator | Jun 2, 2015 | Brain, Mindfulness
I went to see the Rolling Stones on Saturday night. I have loved the Rolling Stones since my dad first played the Let it Bleed LP when I was an elementary student. Much of my teen years were characterized by the double CD that lived in my CD player – Rolling...
by TAadministrator | Apr 21, 2015 | Brain, Mindfulness, Vision
I wavered about going to yoga monday morning. As many of you who have a consistent practice know, you never regret going to yoga. And this monday was the same. The class was restorative, which I was not in the mood for – and the class was small, which meant...
