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Safely Burning
It's true that the path of the heart may not always feel possible, doable or safe. It's super, uber-challenging to truly walk the...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 14, 20232 min read


Holding / Healing
There are times when you become activated, hooked, triggered, and the walls feel as if they are closing in. Thoughts that something is...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 10, 20233 min read


Not Knowing
Just below the compelling storyline of our lives, beneath the colorful emotional landscape of our everyday relationships, there exists a...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 6, 20232 min read


Release
I Release Control By Alexa Sunshine Rose https://open.spotify.com/track/2XOrUY7bzmyqWRll7CMOgQ?si=674a0431153f44df...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 2, 20232 min read


Being a Person
TO BE A PERSON by Jane Hirshfield To be a person is an untenable proposition. Odd of proportion, upright, unbalanced of body, feeling,...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 28, 20231 min read


The Secret at the Center
Falling apart, holding it all together. Then falling apart, then coming back together again. Cycles of clarity and confusion....

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 24, 20232 min read


Breathing, and more . . .
Use your breath to direct attention into the center of whatever feeling is arising. Send awareness inside your emotions and saturate them...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 20, 20232 min read


Paradox and Contradiction
While there is a part of us that very genuinely wishes to heal, awaken, and transform conditioned ways of seeing, there is often a lesser...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 16, 20232 min read


Listening
I am learning deeply to understand that I don't have to fix anyone's problems. I don’t have to save my clients or friends or lovers, I...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 12, 20232 min read


Dawn
WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING By David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 8, 20231 min read


Let Go
Let Go of the Shore By Karen Drucker On the zigzag path that has been my life, I have been faced many times with the dilemma of having to...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 4, 20231 min read


The Vast Relational Field
When we experience heartbreak, tragedy, uncertainty, and grief, we are touched not only by our own personal, biographical layer of...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 30, 20232 min read


Becoming Human
Hafiz is one of my favorite poets. In a poem called “Becoming Human” Hafiz recounts that a man who was having what he thought were...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 26, 20232 min read


Attend, Align and Rest
Trauma occurs when our capacity to process emotional, psychic, and somatic experience is compromised or overwhelmed. The fragmentation of...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 22, 20233 min read


Grace
There are times in our lives, sometimes observable cycles, when our most precious beliefs, insights, awarenesses and realizations fall...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 18, 20232 min read
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