Lifestyle wisdom we have picked up along the way.
Life can be so distracting that we stop noticing our kinaesthesia – our sense of the movement and position of the body – resulting in pain and discomfort. Learn how to activate your kinaesthesia to manage your alignment and get rid of unnecessary pain.
The world of pharmaceuticals used to treat mental illness is a tough one to navigate. So I made up an easy song to help you understand and remember.
We interpret the world through the lens of our own life experience. This is a good thing, because it means that we learn from what we’ve lived and use that information to understand what’s happening and make increasingly wise decisions. It’s also a bad thing, because it means we assume …
Talking about procrastination again (like I did here and here) I came across this in a book called “The Right to Write” by Julia Cameron. There are myriads of reasons we procrastinate but this is one of the more convincing theories I’ve come across: A primary reason writers procrastinate is …
I feel like falling today. Off my bike as I career down a dusty mountain path, dry plants slapping me as I fly past. Fearlessly fast. Or off a skateboard down a long, winding pass. (amazing the amount of trust we put in these flimsy constructs of …
So, after spending the last 6 weeks clearing out my mother-in-law’s 5 storage units, I felt a not-so-sudden urge to simplify my own life even more. In recent years, I’ve become increasingly fond of the movement towards minimalism. Dealing with the results of a lifetime of hoarding caused this …
I’ve been exhuming the past again and happened upon another piece of writing from a while back, as in this previous post. My much-beloved writing coach, Cathy Eden, often recalls this piece fondly. She says that capturing these snippets of life is a way of acknowledging and honouring the significance of seemingly …
I’ve been thinking about the time when I used to lock my keys in my car at least once a week and not be able to find things I was “absolutely 100% certain” (in my imagination) that I had put in a particular place. I know that my mind at …
Do you have any idea how many scams are running at any given time? Many. LOTS. I discovered this due to the fact that my current project is redistributing my 83-year-old mother-in-law’s accumulated possessions. This because her 563 storage units are costing her more than the value of the …
A world without books. Real books. Those made of paper embedded with ink. I remember some saying that eventually everything will be electronic. Printed books will be gone. Defunct. What a horrifying thought. However, I doubt that all the books could be replaced completely by virtual reality. Perhaps there may …
