A Bidirectional Bridge

Thoughts go right Feelings aim left White is all around Red is where it hurts And if this makes you want to ask Let the questions go Sink instead To where the questions come from. I’ll go line by line in the end. But first I’ll say this: The poem is how I read the…

Glimpse

I close my eyes And let the not-body see My body can be found afloat among the houses, tables, pencils, thoughts Emerging from the ground of allI move between my feelings and my pen As if I fly From dream to dream Myself has turned to air. I let everything go. My attention goes to…

A Healing Event

I have not been here for a while, as you know. But I continued to work on myself. “Working on myself” is only a way of talking. I did not work. I watched myself, my inner workings, in the most pleasant way that I know of. It is a pleasant way for me of course….

How to Start a Business During a Pandemic

How I launched my Reiki therapy business while simultaneously managing life as a single parent with a chronic pain condition. Incorporating I had a bad couple of weeks with eye pain caused by ingrowing eyelashes recently. It resulted in an emergency appointment at the local eye hospital and a week of antibiotic eyedrops to soothe…

Hugging and the Need for Touch

Do you miss hugging your friends? It still feels strange to meet up with people that I love and not being able to get close or touch them. But then we have found alternative ways to show our love during these times of pandemic and social distancing. I still receive lots of hugs from my…

Birds in the Blue Sky

I thought just now of calling it: birds falling from the sky. As in many times before, many shapes that I drew, not knowing what I was doing, ended up looking like strange animals. I did not think of any birds and no people were planned. But now there is a man in the left…

5 Simple Self-Care Routines for Gut Health and improved Mental Health

Here are 5 simple self-care routines that you can practice at home to ensure good mental health and improve gut health: 1. Drink water This is such a simple practice and yet one that so many people overlook when they feel unwell. Water is freely available in the Western world, and yet we seem to…

One Big Eye

There is an upper part and a lower part in the drawing The clouds in the night sky fly near the moon then they freely go much farther They are echoes of the no-sound The earth is always hurrying somewhere but this is truly part of a bigger flow The horizon is a line that…