After their massage therapy session, one of my clients recently said: This is going to sound weird but I feel like I just got a really good dose of oxytocin. I love that they said that and it made total sense. But it also left me thinking about where the average adult—at least here in… [Continue Reading]
Blog
One little thing that can make the difference between being tense and relaxing
Whether you’re in your chair at work or chopping veggies at the kitchen counter, sitting in your car or on the bus, or lying in bed just before falling asleep, here’s a question that can make a difference between remaining tense or relaxing: Are you allowing the ground hold you, or are you holding back?… [Continue Reading]
What’s it like to be you in the world?
“What’s it like to be you in the world?” I ask this of people who come to Heidi’s Table for the first time. Probably, they and I have just met. They have made an appointment so I know their name and phone number and email address, and by now they’ve taken off their shoes and… [Continue Reading]
Muscle tension (it’s not all bad!)
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings. Rumi Muscle tension gets a bad rap. But it’s not a bad thing…. [Continue Reading]
That thing you’re calling a failure? Think again!
Sometimes it’s hard to forgive ourselves for what we call our failures. Maybe it was a relationship that tanked. Maybe it was an enterprise you invested a lot of energy, money and love into, and it did not bring what you were hoping for. Maybe you took a wrong turn in life, and ended up… [Continue Reading]
From reaction to action | from upset to calm in 7 steps
Things happen that aren’t fair. All the time. And sometimes life hands us what feels like a particularly unfair hand to play. Maybe you get passed over for a promotion. Even though you’ve been there longer and do a much better job than the person who got it. Maybe you weren’t even considered. Because of your gender. Or… [Continue Reading]
Alone or lonely? (An important distinction!)
Have you noticed that there are times when being alone is the most delicious thing in the world…Loneliness? What loneliness! And then there are other times when you are with people, maybe even people you love, and you feel incredibly lonely. Hmm… It’s Valentines Day. And today I want to talk about loneliness. (Because, why-ever not!)… [Continue Reading]
The Art and Act of Listening (to your body!)
“Take your broken heart, make it into art.” Carrie Fisher said that. And my friend Leah Piken Kolidas painted that gorgeous image of woman cradling the world in her arms. And I just love it! The act of making art or in some way giving expression to heartbreak means that the whole thing about that ache… [Continue Reading]