Annelisa

When I am triggered and my emotional world is on fire . . . When I am in victim mode, spiraling into shame, blame, and rage . . . When I...

Hopi Elder, 03/16/2020 "This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the...

I have been deepening into what it means to “stay with” a difficult thought, feeling, or bodily sensation. It’s not the same as wallowing...

I frequently hear the word “empathy” used generally to describe a casual stance synonymous with “being nice.” It’s a word that risks...

by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a...

In each moment, the archetypal unfolding of beginnings and endings is being enacted within and around me. Old dreams, ideas and beings...

I’m afraid of being abandoned. I feel shame when I think I’m being rejected and not seen as I am. I love solitude, but I am terrified of...

by E.E. Cummings A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t. A lot of...

by Mary Oliver When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me,...

Over many years, with practice, persistence and courage, I am training myself to move toward uncomfortable emotions, to deepen into them...

by Sat Shree My realization is that iAM. This ‘AM’ is the SUBSTANCE of EXISTENCE. The ‘i’ is the personality, mind and the like; these...

Sharing my good feeling states with others, my happiness, insights, and new experiences, is a natural urge, especially when I can see...

Hug One Another

I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I...

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the...