Get your mind, body back together from the Democrat and Chronicle, May 12, 1998 When I was very little, I drew the human figure as a large circle enclosing other circles, dots and lines representing eyes, nose and mouth. Perpendicular lines stuck out of the bottom of the large circle; these were legs. At […]
“Just Touch Them”
“Just Touch Them” by Anais Salibian In June of 1995, I had an experience that radically changed my life. I was attending a week-long workshop on Rosen Method Bodywork and, after three years of training, I finally experienced this mysterious thing my teachers had been talking about: landing in my body. I remember getting […]
A Box Full of Darkness
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand, that this, too, was a gift. –Mary Oliver For me, this season is about the light–the movement of light, how it goes and comes, reliably. For millennia, we humans have known this […]
Slow Down, Part 2
In the last post, I gave two reasons to slow down: 1.) to actually get to feel and enjoy your aliveness and 2.) to have a choice about how to respond in the present moment. The third reason is that you can actually change how your brain is wired if you slow down and take […]
Slow Down, Part 1
I’m constantly in a struggle I often lose. I want to slow down, breathe, have a sense of the leisurely passage of time, space in which to contemplate. Instead, I live like a typical contemporary American with a huge To Do list and constant pressure to make sure that every minute is productive. I preach […]
Fear and Love
I just have to say it. The terrorist attacks in Paris were in the neighborhood where my husband and I stayed while we were there this summer. This gives me a personal feeling for what otherwise might seem far away. I could have been in one of those cafes… I heard some radio interviews of […]
Untitled
Last night I went to a reading of short memoir pieces with the theme of A Different Kind of Love Story. My friend Leah Ruekberg has organized a series called StoriesRoc, inviting people to write and deliver true stories on various themes. (Check it out on line if you want to participate.) On the way […]
Night
Darkness. It has such a bad rep. Maybe that comes from humans’ poor night vision compared to some of our predators, but in these days of degraded nature, we don’t have to worry so much. If you really want to be present and alive in your body and experience the thrill of being on this […]
Igniting Intimacy
Google “loneliness” and you’ll find a plethora of books and articles on recent research that demonstrates how devastated we are by it. I looked because I heard so many people complain about it, even when in the midst of family and friends. As a matter of fact, being married was a greater indicator of loneliness […]
Your Daily Gawk
I’m writing a book/on line course on writing to heal. As of today, my title is Twelve Principles of Writing to Heal from Trauma. I have three main objectives: 1. to explain what trauma is so that we all know how prevalant it is, and that many expeirences we’ve had in life qualify for that […]
