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Accepting the challenges we’d rather avoid
“A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us.” ~ Pema Chödrön...
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The meaning of pain
The other night I started to have extreme pain in my abdomen. I couldn’t find a comfortable sitting or lying position and walking was out of the question. I knew that I was not having labor...
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Fear is a guest
The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!...
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Birthing the unknown
The day finally came. After over 280 days of nourishing the growing baby in my belly, the time came for the inception of his passage into the world. The beginning of my baby’s passage into the world...
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Ten years later
Almost exactly ten years ago, I was in the hospital for a flare of Crohn’s colitis. On May 4th I will celebrate ten years of being Crohn’s-hospitalization free. When I think back on that time of my...
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Throwing away my ideas about saving the world
There was a question that kept surfacing in my consciousness earlier today. It happened in the morning when I took my son into the bathroom so that I could take care of some things. My son is almost 16...
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Walking the line
Today is the last day of Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week in the US. So I am writing a post today to raise some awareness about what it is like to live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). I have...
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More than mindfulness
I have practiced mindfulness meditation for almost 20 years. I started practicing mindfulness meditation way back in 1994, after reading the Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s book, Being Peace....
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Living on the fringes of society as a person with a disability
Today is Blog Action Day and the theme is inequality. I have devoted a good chunk of my professional life to advocacy for people with disabilities. I’ve submitted recommendations for revisions of the...
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Becoming my own advocate
I haven’t written in this blog for almost three years, I know. Well, a lot has happened in that time! But I’ll spare you the details. In these past few years I have learned a lot about myself and how...
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