When Mindfulness is Not Mindful:Creating Conducive Environments for Embodied Practice
PART I When we create affectionate, appreciative, accepting, attuned relational environments, we don’t need to reject anything. This...
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what a time if only covid became the teacher it could have been. when it first began I thought now we have it, the link, the truth of our...
Move In New Direction
M.I.N.D Healthy Habits of Mind influence and are influenced by Body, Brain, and then lead to our next Behavior What we pay attention to...
I Woke With Lions and Bears
Great heartache in all that goes unprotected and outright destroyed. The wild at the mercy of our limited sight. Disruption of...
Divided State of Threat
Pain indicates what is well and good in you and in any other systems you are operating within. If we don't hold this view then we will be...
Anxiety
It is a contender. The basic reality of our uncertain lives. How incredibly vulnerable we are, This soft front exposed, held up by our...
History is Never Dead
How will this new history be taught decades from now? The monuments moved, the flags fabric woven differently, the policies, procedures,...
Enacting our Human-ism
Who took his humanity? The steely eyes staring down onlookers calling for its return. One can’t create an object out of living beings...
Dear George
Hello to you All, how are you? really. I have been struggling lost my heart and way forward, it is important to feel instead of forge...
Bigotry in My Bones
Bigotry in my Bones. I can’t see what I can’t see, The pink marrow, the many times of the bloodlines slow drip, Unseen nutrients build...
Wellness and Oneness
PDF Which structures of Mind, Society, World will Covid 19 pandemic reveal next? Just as a crisis reveals the character of a leader, the...
Covid 19 as Teacher: Reveals & Requires
'I read the news today - there is fighting in the streets' the lyrics speak to the reality of this day March 30, 2020 Covid 19 as teacher...
We will never be as we were
Do you find yourself lamenting, "when will we get back to normal"? In working closely with Trauma for decades, the longing to return to...
Reach, it's what stress asks us to do
Hello, Here we are, in a brand new time with a brand new challenge. Now is the time to study and learn, when we are our best, when we...
Crisis Reveals Leader
When any of us face our individual crises, no matter how large or small, we will see what leads. Part of our human experience is to...
Douglas Miguel Rodriguez
Remember Intention? Why it matters, what it serves, and how it directs mind in new direction beyond pleasant or unpleasant. Maybe you've...
The impetus that does not wait for story to tell the senses what to do.
I saw a man tonight who broke my heart and challenged my ethics. It was on the drive home from my Denver office in the middle of a wet,...
I'd Rather Be There Than Here
I often tell the story of a Vice News investigation that never left me. During the height of the opioid epidemic, 78 deaths per day in...
on the road to resilience
bonus practice for the rest of our lives, is to check our conversations and communication styles (aggressive, passive aggressive,...