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The Unedited Heart: Letters on Loss

The Grief Practice: Stories of Surviving Loss & Practices for Supporting Loss

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somewhere sometime somehow find a way to trace the origins of your grief, your love, your pain, your joy in words or silence, movement or stillness create a space through fire or water or ritual or ceremony that can honor and hold what you have to say, feel, or explore this is how we remember to not forget that where we came from is part of who we are now that our broken pieces are needed to complete the puzzle of our heart __________________________ #inwardandonward #icallitpoetry #page5 #thegriefpractice #grief #love #bookstagram

I am feeling my way back to me. I don't know which way is north or south... I just know the feels. This feels right, that feels wrong. I just know the rabbit holes I can't resist, the carpets I have to ride. Have you given yourself so completely to something or lost something so integral to you that there is no way to go back to who you were... there is just going forward in a new way? I wouldn't let motherhood bury me. It was hard but I was determined. I didn't want to let the book bury me, but it did. It was my choice to return to the fire, to give my all to the thing that took it all. . And now that I have I can start again. Like I did 16 years ago, with everything I own strapped to my heart because the worst thing that can happen is I die without loving fully, speaking up, living outside the box of my mind or creating something that matters. . I'm guaranteed to die. Living and loving, that's up to me. _______________________ #icallitpoetry

I've been grumpy for the last 7 months. Writing a book in the breaks at my day job and in the evenings until midnight just doesn't make me the best version of me. Combine that with the cerebral nature of the project and I've just been getting by as a mother. I am never very happy when I spend more time in my head than my body (even though they're both the body.) Which is so unacceptable in my book because I know how short life is. A part of me knows I've been running from the love that is waiting for me, because it feels so scary to love like this. . So now it's done, and all there is left for me to do is love. And be. And show up for this little human that gives me second chances every morning and every night. . This loving, this softening, this receiving, this forgiving, this showing up is what takes real courage. ___________________________ #motherhood

Three chances for us to heart-to-heart tomorrow (Tuesday) 💞✨Facebook LIVE at 12:30 pst. I'll be showing you inside the book and all the ways it can be used. ✨Yoga at 3:30 & 5:00 @gatherencinitas (take your pick or two-for-one anyone? :) ________________________ #thegriefpractice #chapterYOU #bookstagram #amwriting

He grew up in east LA. Went to the youth authority when he was 16. Started their first newspaper. Got out when he was 18, went back to god and had me. My friends' dads were always so boring compared to him. They never told stories about robbing stores, doing drugs and running from the cops. All his friends are dead. He got lucky. I got lucky I guess. He stopped drinking when I was 12. My son loves him more than anything. I am grateful he gets to have the relationship with him I never did. And sad, so sad I didn't get that. . "I bought your book," he said the other day. For the second time in my life I felt an old piece of my heart I thought would be lost at sea forever dock. And for the first time in 42 years I felt truly seen by him.

Morning flow. The best way to prevent injury in yoga? Vary our position and vary our load. That means finding ways to change it up and add resistance, internal or external. And my brain has been running the show all week, so I had to find a way to dive straight into my body asap. . (I got this fun sequence from @laurelbeversdorf if you're curious :) ____________________________ #yogabiomechanics #sandiegoyoga #carlsbadyoga #encinitasyoga

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