What We Carry We walk around with a quiet hum beneath everything. Not the kind we can name easily — not anxiety exactly, not sadness, not even stress in the clinical sense. Something more ambient. A low-grade vigilance, as if the nervous system never quite got the memo that we’re safe. We check our phones…
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What We Carry About Caring for Ourselves We have learned, most of us, to place ourselves last. Not dramatically — not with martyrdom or fanfare — but in the quiet, habitual way that a person skips lunch because the meeting ran long, or lies awake answering emails in the dark, or says “I’m fine” so…
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What We Carry We carry more than we admit. Not just the memory of what happened, but the weight of what we decided it meant — about us, about the world, about what we deserve. Forgiveness is one of those words that arrives loaded. We hear it and something in us tightens, because we suspect…
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What We Carry Without Knowing We walk around with narrators in our heads who never learned kindness. Most of us have known this for years — decades, even — and still the voice catches us off guard. It arrives in the shower, at the edge of sleep, in the middle of a Tuesday meeting: You’re…
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What We Carry About Positivity We have a complicated relationship with positive thinking. Somewhere along the way, the phrase became tangled with something forced — a demand to smile when we’re hurting, to paste brightness over bruises. We’ve been told to “look on the bright side” by people who hadn’t yet looked at all. And…
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We Live Above the Neck We spend most of our lives as floating heads. Thinking, planning, narrating, worrying — the whole enterprise of modern consciousness seems to happen from the jaw upward, as though the body were merely a vehicle for transporting the brain from one meeting to the next. We forget there is a…
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What We Forget About Breathing We breathe roughly twenty thousand times a day and notice almost none of them. This is, on the surface, a triumph of biology — the brainstem handles respiration so the conscious mind can attend to other things. But somewhere in that automation, we lose something. We lose contact with the…
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What We Carry When We Cannot Soften We have forgotten how to be still without calling it waste. Somewhere along the way — perhaps in childhood, perhaps in the early architecture of our working lives — we absorbed a story that relaxation must be earned. That rest is a reward dispensed after sufficient labor, not…
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What We Carry Without Noticing We move through most of our days in a state of quiet deficit. Not dramatic suffering — just a low hum of not enough. Not enough time. Not enough progress. Not quite the body, the relationship, the career, the morning we imagined. The mind is exceptionally skilled at this kind…
Read moreThe power of self-love and acceptance is one that helps to build an effective mindset. It can be seen as a way to infuse life with greater peace, purpose, and joy. As such, it’s essential to make sure that we embrace ourselves wholly for who we are – not simply the things we do or…
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