A Celebration of the Things that delight us
What is it that makes our favorite things… our favorite things? Maybe it's their beauty, or the comfort they bring. Sometimes it’s the memory or association they carry. It’s often simply the way something feels in our hands, or the
What chanting gives me when pain takes over
As some of you may already know, I had been practicing various forms of mindfulness and meditation for over thirty years by the time chronic pain came into my life. I had learned different ways of working with my attention, my breath, and the constant activity of my own mind.
But pain changed the equation. Many of the things I knew how to do suddenly felt much harder to access when my body and brain were overwhelmed by pain that was both acute and relentless. This was also a time when the anchors of my daily life were slipping away, and the identity I’d built seemed to disappear.