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Fear is a curious thing. When we feel like we’re being threatened, or pushed to our limits, we can take extreme measures to try to protect ourselves. And the threat doesn’t necessarily even have to be real, just perceived that way. Someone may simply… Continue Reading “Feel Your Fears (part 2)”
For most of my Life, I’ve lived with a lot of fear. Fear to speak, to be seen, to be judged, to be rejected, to fail.. I didn’t trust myself, other people or even Life itself to take care of me. I’ve held back… Continue Reading “Feel Your Fears.”
If we’re feeling an emotion, but not allowing ourselves to express it, that energy will only build in our body over time. We can try to suppress it, analyze it, or busy ourselves in order to distract from it, but until we actually face… Continue Reading “What We Resist, Persists.”
Symptoms are justThe Body’s protestFrom living a LifeThey’re not meant to live.From playing a partThey’re not meant to play.We have two ears to listen,And yet it is not those we truly hear it with.For it is in the space between soundWhere our Body’s are… Continue Reading “The Poetry of Presence”
In me, are all of the other men who have come before me. All those who have sacrificed their lives in the name of safety, of protection, of providing, of Love. Looking back through recent history, men have been sent to work on the… Continue Reading “A Call to Men”
Why is it that when most of us need a vacation, we want to go somewhere closer to nature? Why do we even feel we need to “get away” from how we’re living at all? Whether we consciously realize it or not, I would… Continue Reading “The relationship between nature & the body (pt 2)”
Much like in nature, when we slow down and observe an environment long enough, we begin to notice the subtle nuances that we never saw or experienced before. By visiting the same place day after day, we start to become a part of it,… Continue Reading “The relationship between nature & the body”
I feel like one of the most important things I’ve done for myself is learning how to objectively (and compassionately) observe my emotions. Often, when something outside of ourselves triggers us into a feeling, whether it’s anger, jealousy, fear, or any other uncomfortable emotion,… Continue Reading “The need for emotional self-responsibility”
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