Category: Up Close & Personal
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(Re)Creating
I can’t tell you exactly how many times I have recreated my business and brand on this journey, but it must be in the ballpark of at least ten times. Each time that I gain fresh energy I get inspired to move my business in a slightly different direction, and I feel as if I…
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Home Gym Dreams
I dream about having a home gym by renovating our garage, so I pick up the old paperwork and start making that dream come true.
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Self-Care Bingo
One of my groups is doing “self-care bingo” this week and I wanted to select a couple areas to work on. One of the prompts is to write down 5 good things about myself
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2021 Reflection
My tie to emotional eating held me back in 2021, which was the year that I reached my highest weight. I felt a lot of anger and fear. While I gained much weight, I also achieved some amazing things, though. I found community with “my people” for the first time in my life; I actually…
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Goals for 2022
My goal for 2022 was to stay open to the chaos. Checking in with myself, I am very happy with how I continue to combat my challenging habit of numbing out when things get ugly.
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I Sing the Human Electric
As I embark on documenting my wellness journey, this entry explains some motivations.
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Control Causes Suffering
There is much going on in the country currently to present a facade of control. Sometimes control is a good quality in our human experience; however, much of the time control is only a fantasy that brings more harm.
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Grand Opening Tomorrow!
A warm welcome to Meta/Physical Studio, a virtual fitness and wellness studio. Our grand opening is September 1, 2021.
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Summer Energetic Cleanse, Part I
I am going to reach a place at which even my ugly is beauty. I am in transit. Day 3 of a cleanse, apparently, is a time to clean house.
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The Year of Radical Self Care
Most people, I think, require deep rest. If you are part of this capitalist society then you may be aware that rest is not an easily-procured thing. Oftentimes rest is considered weakness. This is true for both men and women but in some different ways.
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Homeschool and Stay Sane During the Pandemic
Homeschooling your elementary school-aged child for the first time during a global pandemic, while you are working and also doing ALL. OF. THE. THINGS. was not expected to be easy — but did you expect that it would be THIS hard?
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Creating for Yourself Rather than Creating to Please Others
There are so many wonderful aspects of creating in order to please, entertain, or otherwise serve somebody else; however, creating strictly for your own purposes, to serve yourself, is a function with which many people lose touch as they grow.
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The Fantasy of Illness
In this video, I present the idea that during the covid pandemic the subconscious may project a wish for illness due to societal and personal value systems. The “fantasy of illness” is a desire that acknowledges one’s understanding of self as a sickly individual in need of care from others; this is not necessarily a…
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Please Be High Maintenance During the Pandemic!
Some people have reflected that they are glad that they are not “high maintenance” during the pandemic. But when I thought about high maintenance during this time, I felt that it was quite desirable and could serve our higher journeys. In this video I encourage high maintenance in the form of having, identifying, and expressing…
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Week 8 Reflection
I have been brave and making videos for some of my other outlets this month, so I figured: why not make a video journal for my wellness journey, too?
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To be a Witch
I always was a witch, but never stepped into that power until recently. I am sure that is the story of many women. Discovering what kind of witch I am and my proclivities is going to be a journey; but everything really is a journey.
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Compassion and Pity
I recently read about one woman’s experience at a Buddhist meditation retreat in India with an aged guru, and it prompted me to question what the difference is between compassion and pity; I found that the inquiry was fruitful for my own deeper understanding of kindness.
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Blacking Out and Taking Care of Yourself
Over the last nearly twenty years, I’ve gone through many articulations of my disorder. But facing my fears through meditation and gentle, conscious yogic movement, and nourishing my body with proper nutrition and spiritual inspiration has aided me the most in healing my momentous fears around just being alive.
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Planning our 2019 Garden
Coming up is our second garden season…ever. We have high ambitions to cultivate our land in a way that inspires our neighbors to grow their own produce — in fact, we have plans to create a local project called “Squash Swap” to help transform our town into a self-sufficient trading community (we are doing this…
