by Kate | Jun 8, 2017 | kind promises
I’m beginning an exploration into how I – how we – can increase our compassion for our bodies. The dominant culture doesn’t help. In her book, Beauty Sick, researcher Renée Engeln gives us the sad demographics: 34% of five-year-old girls engage in deliberate dietary...
by Kate | Apr 12, 2017 | kind promises, mindfulness
right now in my life in this moment watch the cursor blink hear the plumbing hear the dog snore hear hear here here my hand on the mouse fingers – at this moment – being able to curve around it for how much longer? Stretch wide. Make room for the fear. Make room for...
by Kate | Apr 4, 2017 | connectedness, kind promises, meditation, mindfulness
When I stay in the lived experience of the present moment, all is well. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it sounds. I added the words “lived experience” there because these big brains of ours pull us off into judgments and stories about this moment even while we’re...
by Kate | Mar 14, 2017 | kind promises
As I get ready for hosting a table at the Rosemount Writers Festival, I am conscious that I am – in some ways – packaging myself. Who am I as a writer, artist, and person with chronic illness and disability? These days, people talk about branding. I fear that is a...
by Kate | Mar 8, 2017 | chronic illness, kind promises
Living into my kind promises (and contemplating writing a new book), I discovered that several of my promises seem to say the same thing. There are shades of difference, but they are very similar. Consider this: I will surrender patiently. I will open to each moment....
by Kate | Feb 14, 2017 | kind promises, Surrender
Surrender is not a popular notion in our hard-charging, get-it-done culture. It came into my vocabulary when I began practicing the 12 steps. Step three is traditionally written “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood...
