another lens on healing
To have a body, even one that is failing, means to continually open to delight. Our insistence of joy, even amid the difficult, is an insistence of our completeness. We are not in need of fixing, we are arrived: complex, perhaps grumpy, but unwaveringly in partnership with the full kaleidoscope of our humanity.
in praise of longing
In the practice of somatics there is a saying, “life moves towards life.” How I interpret this is, what supports your vitality naturally flows towards what affirms it.
I like to imagine this intelligence moving me like a river. It will guide me toward my thriving if I stop trying to control it and instead let myself be carried.