Practices for Recovering Resilience
Intra-Connection Moment by Moment by Moment
You can watch for yourself Tara Brach’s wonderful conversation with Dan Siegel about intra-connection. Dan is careful to distinguish between INTER-connection (ties between separate, differentiated entities) and INTRA-connection (the innate […]
If I Had Known…I Would Have….
[Note: These Resources for Recovering Resilience will now post weekly in 2023, on Thursdays; always archived on my website.] If I had known to post the poems below to mark […]
A Wise Blessing for the New Year
This year’s new year’s blessing comes from Larry Robinson, a wonderful poet and stalwart supporter of other poets. His poem holds the many contractions and heartaches of our world with […]
Mid-Winter Sustenance
I wrote this poem as I was on the brink of launching my first website, almost 20 years ago! Celebrating the deep friendships sustaining me then; that continue to sustain […]
A Winter Solstice Prayer
A friend sent me the full quote of Albert Camus’s well-known …in the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer…” I looked it up in […]
Reflections on the Ripening of Retirement
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi The life you live is the lesson you […]
Brene Brown and Chris Germer Explore Fierce Compassion – and Enemies Near and Far
I’ve known and treasured Chris Germer personally and professionally for a full decade. Chris is the co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion protocol, now taught to more than 200,000 people world-wide. […]
Keep the Sacred in the Giving
I do try to keep the giving of thanks in mind at Thanksgiving, as in my Thanksgiving post on gratitude, as in calling to mind that day each person in […]
This Is Your Brain on “Deep Reading”
My friend Lynn reliably sends me links to relevant and thought-provoking podcasts, often BBC or Frontline. This time, Ezra Klein’s recent interview with neuroscientist and reading specialist Maryanne Wolf about […]
The Season of the Dark and Happily EVEN After
The poem below, The Season of the Dark, speaks so eloquently to the ongoing grieving of our souls for all we love, for the world, as we try, try, try […]