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362 – Freedom of Expression – Somatic Mindfulness Practice
This week’s podcast episode was all about journaling, expression, and what happens in our bodies when we don’t let things out. And right after recording it, I sat down and recorded a…
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What to do when feeling feels too scary
Yesterday I said the way out is through the feeling. And also? Feeling can be scary. Even now, after years of doing this work, sometimes when I sit down to be with…
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What does it mean to listen to your body? — continued
Last Thursday we gave it a name: interoception — the body’s inner listening system. Today we went one layer deeper, into the felt sense — that vague, pre-verbal something that lives just…
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Your symptoms are trying to tell you something
When I was a young teen, I suffered from chronic migraines and back pain. I later added mono and and a host of other physical symptoms. What I’ve learned since then is…
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The dance between expression and silence
There’s a dance. First: express, express, express. Purge what’s at the surface. What I already know I’m feeling. This is what I think about that situation. This is what I’m feeling towards…
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361 – Expression Is Medicine: What Journaling Does to Your Nervous System
When my husband and I were first married, I suffered from chronic migraines, back pain, and other physical symptoms. What I’ve come to understand since then is that my body was doing…
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[Practice] The Honest Check-In
This is a practice in radical self-honesty: a gentle invitation to look underneath the surface, with curiosity and compassion, not judgment. Find a comfortable position. You can close your eyes, or soften…
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Dishonesty in relationships
When we don’t give ourselves what we need or when we’ve built a life around not fully acknowledging what’s really going on inside of us, what ends up happening is we have…
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The language of your body
We’re not going to get fluent in the language of our bodies, our emotions, our inner world, if we’re not willing to make mistakes about what we’re experiencing. As a metaphor, sometimes…
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Anger → Hatred
If we have anger towards another person, and we don’t allow ourselves to feel it, that anger can turn into hatred. And while Chazal talk about anger being a bad, bad middah,…
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