It began with an eye. Not a human eye, not an animal eye, but something so enormous that I found myself drawn impossibly close to it, as close as I could possibly be, close enough to study every detail of… Read More ›
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The Spiritual and Emotional Roots of Bipolar Disorder
There is a great tide that moves through you.Sometimes it lifts you high, into brightness and speed and endless feeling.Sometimes it draws you low, into heaviness and shadow and quiet.And between them, you have long been searching for steady ground…. Read More ›
Why You Replay What You Should Have Said for Days
The conversation is long over.And still it runs in you.The thing you wish you had said,the reply that came too late,the moment you went quietwhen you longed to speak.Days later, it is still turning,rehearsing a version where you finally found… Read More ›
The Spiritual and Emotional Roots of Breast Cancer
Of all the places in the body, the breast is one of the most tender. It rests over the heart. It is the place of nurturing, of warmth, of closeness held against the chest. It is soft, and it is… Read More ›
Why You “Become” Whoever You Spend Time With
You notice it after the fact.The way you picked up their phrases,their moods, their opinions, their energy.The way you shifted to match themwithout ever deciding to.And later, alone, you wonder,where did I go in all of that. You are not… Read More ›
Why Confrontation Makes You Feel Physically Unsteady
The moment it begins,your body knows before your mind does.Your heart quickens.Your legs feel unsteady beneath you.Your stomach tightens,your thoughts scatter,and something in you wants only for it to stop. You are not weak.You are not too fragile for the… Read More ›
The Spiritual and Emotional Roots of Atrial Fibrillation
Your heart has lost its steady rhythm.A fluttering, a racing, a quivering where there was once a calm and even beat.Sometimes it settles, and sometimes it stirs again, this restlessness at the very center of you. Your heart keeps the… Read More ›
The Spiritual and Emotional Roots of Gastroparesis
There is a stillness in your belly that will not move.Food that sits, and lingers, and does not pass.A fullness that stays long after the meal has ended. Your stomach has grown quiet in its work.And in that quiet, there… Read More ›
The Spiritual and Emotional Roots of Anemia
Something in your blood has grown thin.A paleness has crept in, a quiet loss of color.And with it a tiredness, a breathlessness, a fading of the fullness you once carried. Your blood is the river of your life.And when it… Read More ›
The Spiritual and Emotional Roots of Benign Essential Blepharospasm
Your eyes have begun to close on their own.A blinking you did not ask for.A squeezing shut, a fluttering, a wish of the eyelids to draw down and stay closed. There is something your eyes seem to be doing for… Read More ›