Category Archives: Letting Go

Abandoning Hope and Beginning Again

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

Last Wednesday, while preparing to step into the bath, I took a quick glance in the mirror. Then I took a second glance. A vein that I had never noticed before had sprung up dark blue on the left side … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Revelations

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Massage therapists, we worry about burning out our hands. In school, we are greeted with a barrage of horror stories: tendonitis, carpal tunnel, ganglian cysts. And sure enough, the first six months I was in practice, I had tingling from … Continue reading →

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Yoga for Holiday Stress

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

I’m not sure when I fell out of love with the holidays, but if I had to pin it down, I’d say it was the year of the collage magnets. I was in my mid-twenties, living with friends in Seattle, … Continue reading →

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A Stress Free Manifesto

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Manifestos like the ones pictured here make me so tired. I feel like they’re yelling at me.  “Hey you!” they cry. “Stop whatever it is you’re doing right now and start LIVING YOUR LIFE, for goodness sake! Carpe Diem! Seize … Continue reading →

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The Limits of Limitless Healing

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

At fourteen years old, my spouse, Joy was the victim of a catastrophic accident while riding her bicycle. Her face bore the brunt of the impact on the street. The left side of her face was scraped off by the … Continue reading →

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We’re all going to die! Now try and relax.

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

I recently received a snippet of newsletter from a yoga studio suggesting that as your yoga practice progresses, you might want to swap corpse pose (the reclined relaxation at the end of asana practice) for a sitting meditation. This, the … Continue reading →

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Home Security System

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

Owning a home is more work than I thought. The effort required to raise money for a mortgage versus rent, to call a contractor versus a landlord, shines a daily light on how much energy is required to support this … Continue reading →

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