I had a new client come in for her second session last night (by her request, she's on a weekly schedule until she feels like she's getting a grip on balance and improved coping mechanism), and something that I kept catching her up on was the language of "should", especially something we took to calling "Other People's Shoulds", meaning all the ( Read more... )

I was thinking this morning about irony being a bitter pill to swallow, with specific context in mind and associated pains to illustrate my chosen stance, and was composing the post in my head on the drive to work. By the time I had time to try and marshal thoughts into words, however, I found that I had let go of the bitterness, and the Narrator ( Read more... )

I didn't write down or post my gratitudes last night, but I did speak them aloud when I was done my sitting practice. The ability to calm my mind still eludes me, but the practice of sitting in physical stillness for a few minutes every night before bed still seems a worthwhile thing to do, even if it's a constant battle to get the brain out of ( Read more... )