A Little Woo-Woo
Woo One Because The Body Keeps the Score mentioned chanting, I thought I would try chanting. Not in public, because I wasn’t ready to go that far. Instead, I used this meditation on the InsightTimer app. As I listened the […]
Woo One Because The Body Keeps the Score mentioned chanting, I thought I would try chanting. Not in public, because I wasn’t ready to go that far. Instead, I used this meditation on the InsightTimer app. As I listened the […]
In my exploration of things that make my mind feel better, my GOADS (Get Out And Do Stuff) focus on synchronized movement with others comes from The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. A year ago, van
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Every single thing I’ve done on the GOADS plan (Get Out And Do Stuff), I haven’t wanted to do. And every single time, after I’ve done it, I’m glad I did. This was especially true of contra dancing. The contra
The commitment to go line dancing felt like a stone. I’m good at going places by myself—restaurants, concerts, events, whatever. But line dancing was different. It was in a bar. Bars trigger memories of not measuring up, starting in college,
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Back when I started the Get Out And Do Stuff (GOADS) project, I was crying every day. Now the person I was then seems so far away, it’s hard to imagine feeling that way. In the last eight days, I
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Carrie Fisher said that in hindsight, she may have married Paul Simon because of his music. There was something about the rhythm of the words that made her bipolar brain feel better. When I listen to Paul Simon’s Graceland and
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The drumming room is bright but softer, less of a rectangle, more of a square. Metal chairs with blue or yellow hard plastic seats are arranged in a circle. Most of the seats are taken. Each seat has a tall
Saturday! Time to go drumming! When I last looked at the Bi-Okoto Cultural Center website, the Saturday drumming class was at ten o’clock. Because I am almost always early for everything, especially when I am nervous, I get there at
Sharon Keefer is 90 years old. She doesn’t just play pickleball, she teaches others how to play. At nine o’clock every Thursday and Saturday morning from late Spring to early Fall, if you show up at the pickleball courts at
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Drumming wasn’t until Saturday. It was too far away from Tuesday afternoon to simply wait for it to arrive. Preventive measures were necessary. There are two questions I ask myself when the blue cloud shows up, bumping against the window,
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