It’s a wild sensation to feel your body sliding back into place. To feel the jutted and stacked posture and have your whole body go, “oh no, darling, let’s just tidy you back up.” And then you realign your spine and joints, and it feels so good! Because you CAN realign yourself! I’ve gone backContinue reading “Muscle Memory”
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Take the Quiet When You Can
I always look towards my days off as an endless expanse of time in which all my goals can be accomplished. Even if in small doses. Then these days arrive and I am met with a very different experience. I am met with much decompressing. I set out to spend at least an hour aContinue reading “Take the Quiet When You Can”
Pacing Myself
After a couple days of finishing these blocks my right arm is very unhappy from neck to fingertips. I knew better. I should have stretched and rolled frequently, but I was so in the zone. I swore to take a break. For two days I stared at this pile. The most arduous parts completed andContinue reading “Pacing Myself”
Facing Yourself
When you are forced to take a good look at what you’ve been doing to yourself for years, it is anything but comfortable. Knowing I was doing my best helps a little. Realizing what that best was up against is validating and heart wrenching. I’ve always hated being treated as a damsel, unless I’ve decidedContinue reading “Facing Yourself”
Thoughts
I’m fine. My body and I have had an adventure of a journey together. I’m sad to say I have deliberately cut myself off from this organic machine at different points in my life. Understanding that I had to in order to survive doesn’t make this treacherous journey of reconnection any easier. I’m fine. We’veContinue reading “Thoughts”
And Again…
Once more I’m starting back at taking care of myself. It’s really an ebb and flow sort of thing. Phases of rest and stillness. And phases of activity and movement. I’ve come to realize, or more completely understand, that I have a lot I’m still healing from. There is a lot I am helping myContinue reading “And Again…”
Seriously Anxiety!
I’ve taken a few more days off from working out than I had been planning. My mom’s visits usually do that. But now I’m suffering the consequences. Today’s anxiety is sort of like an unexplained dread. I’m starting a new adventure (I am taking on a second massage job) and the great unknown is unnerving.Continue reading “Seriously Anxiety!”
Bringing my Goddess Back
I’m going to do it. I’m going to get back on track and start doing the things I need to do to take care of myself so I can be here, fully, for my crazy family. My body has been begging for so long it has entered into an aggressive strike against my ‘hibernate untilContinue reading “Bringing my Goddess Back”
Getting a Massage
It has been way too long since my last massage. I am not always this terrible about getting body work done, but our schedules at work are always full and it’s just been too difficult to schedule anything for ourselves. The studio owner noticed this and set up a couple days for a therapist toContinue reading “Getting a Massage”
Got Through My Day with the Help of Some Trees
It was depression’s turn to take the lead today. I woke up feeling weighted down. I wanted nothing more than to stay home and relax with my kids. It was a physical ache to leave them. I have come to use my drive as a time to let myself ride whatever I’m feeling. To giveContinue reading “Got Through My Day with the Help of Some Trees”
The Accidental Domestic Goddess 