Musings

I cannot tell you how many people I know that struggle with sleep. They tell me that they cannot fall asleep, cannot stay asleep, and even if they do sleep, they wake up feeling sluggish and unrested. The whole situation just creates a cycle of anxiety that can build upon itself and wreak havoc with our natural rhythms. I used to also have issues with sleep on the regular, and now, when I have heightened [...]

I often struggle with what is the “right action” I am supposed to take in any particular situation. When too much of my thinking mind wants to lean more towards less risk, stronger boundaries, protections, more worries: my actions are taken more from a fearful standpoint. I think, “I can’t possibly do that, it would be a disaster, everyone will laugh at me, or I will simply fail and be ruined”. Acting too much from [...]

(sunrise photo by Andre Daugherty) There is something about the mountains just before sunrise. There is a weighty quality to this time, before the mountains let go of the sunrise and release it into the sky. The forest is absolutely still… but there is this charged feeling of the coming day. Darkness soon to lighten. Stillness soon to move once again.  I love to be awake during this transition and, nowadays, I am usually seated [...]