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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 […]

There are moments when something doesn’t change so much as it unfolds into itself. MesmerSoul is one of those moments. This space is the continuation of everything that has come before it—the conversations, the sessions, the reflections, the quiet in-betweens where something deeper was always being listened for. The name […]

Welcome friends! Amy Carroll Hypnotherapy has evolved into MesmerSoul. This means that going forward, you’ll receive emails from MesmerSoul, and the website is now MesmerSoul.com. The Everyday Mind blog is still here and can be found in the Blog section of the new website. You don’t need to take any […]

I lost my dog this week. She was one of my greatest loves; and this grief moves strangely. Not like the storm I thought it would be. But more like a veil, that drapes quietly over ordinary things until even the light in the room feels altered somehow. The body […]

There is a kind of exhaustion that sleep does not touch. A fatigue deeper than the body and the mind. A wearing thin of the inner field. The nervous system stretching to hold too much signal. Too much noise. Too many unfinished emotions moving through us at once. We live […]

Look closely enough, and we can see it. How the shape of a society is not abstract. Not something distant, decided somewhere else. By someone else. Society is made visible by how people move. How they speak. What they tolerate or refuse. Its shape is held in the smallest interactions. […]

There is a kind of quiet that is not absence, but refusal. A refusal to be bullied under by the constant churn of noise, urgency, outrage, by a world that profits from dysregulation and calls what’s left awareness. We are living in a time where chaos is currency, attention is […]

Our minds move in currents and degrees. Gently. They adjust in small increments along the emotional spectrum of whatever it is we’re navigating right now. Right. Now. What are we navigating? And how easy is it to answer that question when we live in a culture that teaches us to […]