by Kate | Feb 12, 2025 | Chronic healing, EQUANIMITY, kind promises
Often, when you are not feeling well, the way you think can make things feel worse. We can train our minds to respond to the events of our lives more skillfully. The Buddha described two arrows of suffering. The first arrow does the wounding. That is an uncontrollable...
by Kate | Nov 18, 2024 | kind promises
How can we expand our love of others – even difficult others – and of ourselves? In my research about love, I discovered the Revolutionary Love Project. They have identified practices to use that move us to love. I found many of their ideas intriguing, so I summarized...
by Kate | Aug 24, 2024 | kind promises
This month, I’ve been considering the promise to “reinvent whimsically.” I have it as an annual reminder, but the ideal is to practice reinvention on an ongoing basis. It’s great to establish routines that support physical and mental well-being. But sometimes routines...
by Kate | Jul 24, 2024 | kind promises, Vulnerability
We like to imagine we are in control. The dominant culture encourages us to decide what we want, plan to go after it, and work hard to achieve it. We want to be go getters. The cost of that outlook is often anxiety, ill health, and loneliness. What is meant to bring...
by Kate | Jun 11, 2024 | kind promises
Sometimes you can find strength just by the way you think about things. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 20. MS is a disease of the central nervous system. Each person with MS experiences it differently. It’s unpredictable and, when I was diagnosed,...
by Kate | Apr 10, 2024 | chronic illness, connectedness, kind promises
Dr. Vivek M. Murthy is the US Surgeon General. As he traveled the country, he heard that people felt isolated, insignificant, and invisible. That led him, in May 2023 to declare loneliness an epidemic. “Loneliness is like hunger,” he said “a signal we are lacking...