When I say aliveness, what do I mean? Aliveness is the opposite of numbness. It is the full capacity for responsive sensation, encapsulating the entire range of the human capacity to feel, from grief to joy. Aliveness is sensuality, eroticism, connection with the natural world around us, with people and with community. It is a…
Tag: Philosophy
Wellness is Incidental
My biggest existential coup is that my sucking, cloying attraction to social media has vanished. I have written in the past about leaving Facebook. This may be another one of those posts – only time will tell. But I know something is different, so I am writing from where I find myself. Something has fundamentally shifted and this I can’t deny. This is key, this shift. This is more incidental wellness.
The Body Barometer
While I do bill myself as a somatic coach, I also operate with the understanding that we didn’t grow up knowing how to use our entire beings to be well in the world. The fact is that it’s not the mind alone that informs us of how we are. It’s the bodymind that exists in…
One Resonant Human
Expanding on part of a Facebook conversation yesterday. The question was whether or not we could come into resonance within ourselves if we’d never had the experience of being championed for that which did not come easily as children. If we’ve never had the experience of being attuned to properly in childhood, or even in…
Why What I Think Matters Less Than How I Think
Today I began my first intentional step on the road to becoming a more organized thinker. In November of 2020, when I enrolled in my coaching course, I was hoping that it would provide me with unprecedented (relative to my experiences with formal education) levels of intellectual challenge. It turns out that the methodology of…
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