Lit Review Ponderings
“Read the page, looking for any sentences, paragraphs, or excerpts relevant to the concept you are investigating that are claims or findings about the concept or that state what its components are. Read quickly. You are not reading for deep meaning. You are not reading...
Mother’s Day 2020: An Ode to Past Lives
Mother’s Day 2020 was like most days during the pandemic: it was a hard day and a good day. For Mother’s Day, I reclaimed a little piece of myself. I went for a bike ride. It had been almost three years since I’d ridden my bike....
Meditating in the time of coronavirus
When the global pandemic struck, like many people I felt overwhelmed, and felt very grateful to my mindfulness practice for giving me some tools to deal with the challenges of these times. I took what I was feeling and wrote a little guided meditation, which...
Motherhood, Mindfulness, Dissertation, Earth Holding
There are a few moments of life when things feel like they are in a streamlined, unified whole, and for me, as I begin 2020, I am having one of those moments and felt the need to share! The four quadrants of my life right now...
Beginnings
New Decade, New Year, New Chapter “The journey begins hereWith whatever is capturing your attention…Whatever your focus, Give your whole being.”-Radiance Sutras, Yukti Verses (10) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157607519735856&set=a.10150627044620856&type=3&theater I write as we begin a new year, new decade, and I begin, quite literally, a new chapter. On Monday, January 13th, 2020,...
Breaking (a meditation on motherhood)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvh60euHbwfqrYQvOz5bK-hv9Jt9kSMimVrS080/ Motherhood is a constant extending of the boundaries of the self, a constant process of becoming someone else. To paraphrase the poet Andrea Gibson (who was talking about their dog, Squash), it’s having your heart walk around outside your body. It’s a constant breaking down....
On “Work” and Motherhood
The following post/rant feels incomplete, but I am posting it in its incompleteness and imperfections as something I need to get off my chest and something I need to say. Right now I am a full-time mom and full-time doctoral student, doing consulting and online teaching...
My Life In Water
My Life in Water: An Ecopsychological AutobiographyAs I approach the end of my doctoral coursework, I am going over old papers and I found this one that I really loved as I read it with fresh eyes. It was written in 2017 during my first...
An Ode to My 30s
Dear 30s (April 24, 2009-April 23, 2019), You were the best of times and worst of times (and maybe that’s true of all times). You were more about taking things - life - more seriously. I dedicated my life to peace. I studied it deeply and...
“Logic” Model
Recently for a class assignment, I had to complete a personal/professional logic model. I found the model difficult to complete for a few reasons. My life has not necessarily been "logical." In hindsight, all of the steps make sense, but at the time, I would have...