I recently finished reading a book to help me understand and heal my parasympathetic nervous system - the rest, digest, and recovery system in your body that helps you manage the impacts of chronic stress. Here are some of the strategies that I am planning to implement this year…

In which I pick 10 pieces of clothes to wear for 10 days in different combinations to make my life easier. It didn’t go as I hoped…

“It’s all invented anyway, so we might as well invent a story or a framework of meaning that enhances our quality of life and the life of those around us.”

I came home from vacation and surprised myself by what I chose to do first.

Lost, a poem by David Wagoner

Since I am consciously trying to move out of a world of scarcity and into possibility, I would like to set out a little differently this year.

I wanted to better understand some of the practices used to teach resilience, so that I might be better prepared to handle the stress of graduate school without PTSD! Here are a few practices I identified...

'The past is gone, the future is not yet here. If we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.' - Thich Nhat Hanh