Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
Posted on
April 1, 2020
Another moving and timely piece of poetry by Pablo Neruda. "What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about."...
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Mental Health
Poetry as Listening (and why this matters during COVID-19)
Posted on
March 27, 2020
All we thought we knew, tested. All we thought to be secure, shaken. Asked to isolate and sit with ourselves. An opportunity to undertake a kind of 'contemplative-intimacy.' What would happen if we chose to treat this time as an invitation to listen?...
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Reclaiming Our Worthiness of Stillness (Why It Is So Important and “How To”)
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February 17, 2020
Swimming in a cultural narrative that has us peg our worth against our work, it can be easy to get stuck in Doing. It is inevitable that we feel guilt around taking a breath, a break. Yet, in this time where we need grace and...
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The Fertile Space Between Your Self-Worth and Your Work (How To Let It Be Of You, But Not All Of You)
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October 15, 2019
Born into a culture that asks "what do you do,” more than “what are you in love with,” breeds a value system that shapes how we relate to ourselves, and others. Identifying so inextricably with our work has us on the wheel of ’never enough’...
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