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Disruption
I like to listen to podcasts when I go for my morning walks. This morning I listened to Are You Living a Good Life? from 10% Happier with Dan Harris. In it, they talk about noticing and acting upon the positive disruptions in your life. Those small moments when you realize you need to pivot.… Continue reading
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Flexibility
This year I am practicing flexibility. This is not something that comes easily to me. I can be quite rigid: in my thinking, in my eating habits, in my routines. I once had a professor who told us that inflexibility can be thought of as psycho-arteriosclerosis – arteriosclerosis of the mind. We all know the… Continue reading
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Spiraling Upwards
During the student orientation of my master’s degree program, the president of our college told us about her theory of learning: “It’s like a spiral,” she said. “You will keep circling back to topics you have already learned, but forgotten. Yet with each pass through, you will notice that you have reached a new level… Continue reading
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Life as an Ex-Pat
I live in a country that’s not mine. A country where they speak a language within the language that I had to learn in order to live and work here. Sometimes, if I am lucky, I can understand the local dialect. But only when I relax my mind and lean into the way they shape… Continue reading
All Flared Up 