Tag: Receptive

  • A Necessary Corrective

    A Necessary Corrective

    It’s Contagious… Imagine yourself walking down a wooded path. You are contentedly listening to a podcast, fully immersed in your own little world, and from a distance, you notice an individual who is staring up into the trees. They are perfectly still, focused and appear determined in their level of attention. Suddenly, you notice your…

  • Before Becoming

    Before Becoming

    “I don’t know how you can remain so unaffected.” Dripping with judgment and delivered with acrid tone, her words had me on my heels. Some childlike part of me shrunk in shame while another part felt the sting of indignation in recognizing she had not asked a single question to understand my interior landscape. Once…

  • Return to Your Senses

    Return to Your Senses

    Nothing would be the same after that day…nor could I understand all the ways that was true. I was in a deep sleep when the phone trilled. Certain I had once again overslept; my nervous system launched its menagerie of physical sensations that expressed its state of panic as my mind quickly composed another version…