If we were to give our emotions a physicality, what would they feel like? Is it a warmth in the chest? A lightness in the belly? Would the shoulders drop a full half inch? Is it an urge to move, to laugh, to hold communion with someone we appreciate? Or […]
Amy Carroll
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We spend much of our lives searching. Searching for who we are. Searching for what we’re here to do. Searching for what we’re meant to become. We look inward for answers, outward for direction, and somewhere in between, we try to make sense of the experience of being alive. We […]
What if we viewed letting go as a gift. From the self, to the self. On purpose. What if we looked at holding not as loyalty, but as a way of keeping ourselves in place. What would it mean if we gave ourselves permission to take a breath, and feel […]
Maybe there is magic. More magic in the moment than we notice. Or have time to notice. Moment to moment, we exist in a state where we no longer identify the ordinary. We remain staid. Anchored. Held in the energy of what we expect. And so, even as we look, […]
We are witnesses. And at the same time we understand, in the right now, the unbearable weight of seeing. We taste the bitter tang of loss. Within the shape of ourselves and collectively. Our toes touch the line between us and the world. The line between us and devastation. Between […]
So much of life is spent in motion. Forward. Away. Toward what is next. Sometimes that movement comes from a sense of readiness. And sometimes, if we are honest, it comes from the hope that if we keep going, we might not be required to fully meet what is. That […]
What if the first step toward lasting change isn’t changing at all, but noticing? Just noticing what is. And in that noticing, is the invitation to explore the ways we might consider shifting. Something that has been coming up again and again with clients is obligation, automatic responses, and what it […]
We often describe Presence as something we practice. It is, after all, the most people thing we can do. To take what already is and practice is-ing with it. We might meditate or focus on our breath. If we’ve done it enough, we might notice our thoughts or even notice […]
There is a point where everything stops pointing at itself. Where the light is no longer new, the heat no longer surprising. Even the intensity of the brightness has become familiar. In the full bloom of summer the real work begins. Not the arrival. Not the awakening. But the inhabiting. […]
Welcome to the Solstice and the beginning of Cancer season. We’re standing at the pinnacle of the solar year, exactly halfway between one winter Solstice and the next – fully immersed in the blazing heat of summer. Where the light shows us the way. It seems like it should be […]