You know how to hold space for others.You can sense their pain,soothe their wounds,help them soften and open and heal.And yet, when it comes to your own heart,you stay behind a quiet wall,tending everyone but yourself. You are not a… Read More ›
It began, as these things so often do, I was pulled toward a zoomed in view of a single rose. I found myself drawn toward it before I even understood that I had arrived somewhere, pulled into attention the way… Read More ›
Of all the organs you carry, the heart is the one we speak of when we speak of love.We say a heart is heavy, or full, or broken.We say it aches, it softens, it hardens, it opens. The body seems… Read More ›
You love them.You know they are safe.And still, when they come close,something in you quietly holds back.A part of your heart stays behind glass,watching, guarding,even when there is nothing to fear. You are not cold.You are not incapable of closeness.Something… Read More ›
Your heart is speaking.Not in words, but in rhythm.A flutter. A quickening. A sudden skip in the quiet of your chest. It catches your attention, this stirring.It asks you to pause, to place a hand where it beats, to listen…. Read More ›
There is an aliveness in you.A warmth, a softness, a sensual currentthat is simply part of being human.And yet you keep it tucked away,quieted, guarded,as though letting it showwould be somehow unsafe, or shameful, or too much. You are not… Read More ›
It happened again. And this time I was carried further, and through more doorways, than I have easy words to hold. I was pulled, the way I always am, inward and forward at once, and I found myself standing inside… Read More ›
Your body is not betraying you.It is showing you what has come on too quickly,what overwhelmed your ability to process,and what surged through your system without warning or space to release. Acute Kidney Injury is not just a sudden medical… Read More ›
Someone really sees you.They look a little too closely,they name something true about you,they turn their full attention your way.And instead of warmth,something in you flinches,and quietly wishes you could slip out of the room. You are not cold.You are… Read More ›
Your body is not collapsing.It is revealing where you were unsupported, unseen, or unable to hold it all together.A cystocele—when the bladder descends into the vaginal wall is not just a mechanical failure.It is a soulful revelation.The bladder does not… Read More ›