Hey there Reader, We all hear voices in our head. Some of them we're conscious of, others not. That doesn’t mean we are “crazy”, whatever that means. When I first started paying attention to my inner voices, it struck me how many of them there were there. Some more active than others, some more persistent, some more bold. Each one with its own hues, range, and intonations. Each one telling a story. Time and will have helped me map them out. Put some at ease, others to rest. Some voices have...

Hey there Reader, In my previous email, I talked about how there’s a solution to anxiety and it involves re-directing your attention towards your body (icymi, you can read it here). But what happens when the body, your body, is not somewhere you want to go? Perhaps things have happened to you in the past and they involved your body. Perhaps you’ve dealt with pain for most of your life and it feels like your body is working against you. Perhaps the idea of focusing on your body feels weird or...

Whenever I tell people that part of my work is delivering stress management workshops, their eyes light up. I’m like eye candy. They lean in. They ask questions. They share stories. I have to admit: I sometimes regard the stress relief part of my work as the “most basic”, the least challenging, and thus the least gratifying one (thanks, patriarchy). It’s not as “deep” as trauma work, or as imaginative as energy work. I partly play it down because I sometimes… forget. I forget how it was when...