I'm developing my identity as someone who has terrible things happen and just lets it roll right off of her. I am enamored of this idea. Sort of the opposite of a Drama Queen. A chill person.

I tried this with the cancer diagnosis and it has worked pretty well for me. Serious cancer not caught early? Shrug, okay, I'll just walk this path and do what ( Read more... )

This has been a really useful technique. I'm cutting and pasting from a UVM Medical Center blog article, but I added my own spin. This exercise is about noticing that you are currently OKAY. You're safe, surrounded by beauty, everything is OKAY right now. It's to be combined with deep breathing at each step ( Read more... )

This was well worth reading. It got technical in places, but was generally intelligble enough to follow ( Read more... )

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This is a tale of how people were inadvertently angels today. From their perspective, they were having a sort of shitty day after making an irritating mistake in the ferry line. It reminded me of the time I came in DFL in a road race, and how sometimes we don't even know when we are being angels sent by God.

Regular readers know that I run a ( Read more... )