5 Yoga Poses to Help You Through a Break-Up
We tend to think of yoga as something to do when you need to stretch. The truth is that yoga is as much mental as physical, as much to open […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
It’s Not Alphabetical, But “Me” Comes Before “Marriage”
There has been quite a bit of discourse over the last few years about the relative happiness and health of people with different relationship statuses. Much of the popular literature […]
States of Matter
Which state of matter best describes you? Solids are comprised of tightly packed molecules. They are rigid, holding their own shape. The atoms that make up a solid are stuck, […]
Anger Deflation
My biggest stumbling block was (and at times, continues to be) anger. I could not get past the deliberate nature of what he had done. Holding me, telling me how […]
Anger is a Succubus
Anger. It is so easy to go there. To stay there. Why did he do this to me? How could he have done these things? What a (fill in the […]
Softness Isn’t Just for Selling Tissues
When I was a toddler, I used to try to walk through the sliding glass door. Repeatedly. The coffee table was simply an apparition that should bend to my will […]
You Are Not Your Divorce
Our traumas help to form us, but we do have to let them define us. You are not what happened to you. You are not your suffering. The first […]
En Guarde: Lessons From the Fencing Strip
I was never an athletic child. I always had various bodily complaints: asthma, joint problems, allergies, and I found it way too easy to pass on physical exertion due to […]
Sometimes It’s About What You Can Reach
I was engaged in my usual Sunday cook-a-thon last week when I faced a small dilema. I wanted the smoked paprika (fancy, I know) for the recipe, but it was […]
On the Menu: A Popeye-Endorsed Vegan Mint Chocolate Chip Milkshake
Yup, that’s right. A vegan milkshake. Well, actually, a vegan protein shake that just happens to taste like my favorite flavor of ice cream. And, did I mention it contains […]
