May 1, 2020 I feel more settled when I can stay present. My anxiety decreases, my worry dissolves. There’s a bit of a dance when looking back, or looking forward. Not bending to every thought or idea but noticing the ones that hold energy. To look back as an archaeologist or historian. To look forward […]
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Part 3 By Christina Carney April 2, 2020 Hope doesn’t have to be naive. It doesn’t have to ignore the fear and sadness. It can be grounded in The bird songs Paws insistently pushing your hand Placed upon your chest, waiting to be Pet and loved. All the moments small but adding up to something
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Part 2 By Christina Carney I’ve been an intermittent journaler since I was a preteen, but when we started quarantining in March of 2020 it seemed like a good time to pick it back up. I’ve filled several journals since then, writing three pages nearly every morning. This series looks back at pieces of those
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Excerpts from a Pandemic Journal Part I By Christina Carney I’ve been an intermittent journaler since I was a preteen, but when we started quarantining in March of 2020 it seemed like a good time to pick it back up. I’ve filled several journals since then, writing three pages nearly every morning. This series looks
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by Christina Carney What would happen if you threw away everything you thought you knew about wellness and being well? If you’re anything like me, you’ve worked hard for your wellness and this probably sounds like a terrible idea. But I’m not suggesting that you stop cultivating wellness in your life, rather that you bring
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,by Christina Carney I’d like to be honest here and tell you that I didn’t learn much about how to take care of myself from our conventional mental health system. It seemed more focused on illness than wellness and the tools they offered up seemed to have limited usefulness. At best, they taught me how
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Growing up, did you have language to talk about mental health and inner wellness with others? I didn’t. Well, not outside of the standard clinical language of diagnoses. The only references to doing any kind of personal work on the psyche were in the context of therapy. There was nothing personal and accessible, nothing to
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By Christina Carney You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. ~ Ram Dass I have a lot of wellness tools that I employ regularly. They give me something solid to ground in, and keep me oriented to my center. They’re amazing and yet not quite complete. In the past year or so I’ve
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