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January 7, 2011“Oh, holy smokes!” I interrupted Mary in the middle of our conversation. After more than a month, we had finally...
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January 7, 2011When my path became most tumultuous, I had the most comically bizarre dream of my life.
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November 15, 2010We sat on the shore of the river looking down at a wide bank covered with slabs of rock. The...
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August 31, 2010Analyzing the data for my dissertation is highlighting for me the limits of intellectual knowing. Welcome to the Zen of...
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July 27, 2010The water’s fine! The expanded self, or luminosity–entering it is like learning to dive into a river. Over time and...
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June 25, 2010 Your body carries a record of your past experiences, some deep and old and intense, but the past no longer...
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June 19, 2010Look up. Set aside the empty box and the packing tape. The sky is a a rich gleaming yellow with...
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May 17, 2010Amid memories of disappointing a former love, a prayer for a more beautiful face is answered in minutes.
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January 14, 2010I am being reassembled. The process is unmistakeable. It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
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December 23, 2009Can we use drugs to numb our emotional pain without losing our souls?
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November 24, 2009The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
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Two hands lift silt from the bottom of the shallow river and rise to the surface. The sun shines into...
Written by an embodiment psychologist, Zen Buddhist, and single mother, "Waking Heart" is a diary of synchronicities, lessons both learned and forgotten, accidental awakenings, and the cultivation of love.