A truly great hug is a rich experience that has you pull another human body deliciously tight into yours as a way of saying, “I so deeply value your presence that I’m taking this exact moment to feel you, smell you, breathe with you – essentially stamp your being into my cellular memory so that
Most doctors, yes MOST DOCTORS, would OUTRIGHT REFUSE life-saving interventions (CPR, life support, feeding tubes, etc.) because they know how brutal and futile end-of-life care can be, and what little chance of meaningful success it typically offers. There’s a fascinating NPR RadioLab podcast about that @ http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitter-end/ The rest of this essential blog about the
♦◊♦ I’m pretty sure that sometimes “healing” just means learning to live in peace with the pain. I’ve been to countless workshops. I’ve questioned my stressful thoughts for days on end and accumulated countless hours of stranger eye-gazing to weepy Whitney Houston songs; I’ve sat still and starving on desolate mountainsides, determinedly reframed disappointments and
“People get what they MUST have.” Tony Robbins said that on Saturday during one of the most powerful weekends I’ve experienced in years, his Unleash The Power Within seminar. Tony Robbins is the masculine embodiment of grounded human potential both understood and expressed (I’ll explain that another time). This is the point: Want to raise