4 Steps to Quiet “Monkey Mind”

4 Steps to Quiet “Monkey Mind”

I used to suffer from Monkey Mind!  My brain was in overdrive, I would latch onto a fearful thought and then my brain would take off! It was so incredibly exasperating! And the funny thing is…now that I’ve mastered the monkey brain, I can’t remember the last time it...
Into the woods with Great Grandpa Mark

Into the woods with Great Grandpa Mark

In life we sometimes come across situations where we forget to simply acknowledge our emotions. I always go by the saying “you can feel an emotion and not do anything about it”. The problem comes when you forget to actually feel the emotion. Oftentimes we are “too...
Not a plumber…not a fish…

Not a plumber…not a fish…

“you aren’t a plumber…NONE of this stuff is in your wheel house!” This was the message that came into my head yesterday as I left Mom’s house. It was a regular visit…in that regular visits are always fraught with feelings of...
Getting through it “ugly”

Getting through it “ugly”

Yesterday was a hard day Or wait…let me try this again…Yesterday was a hard FUCKING day! And I made it through ugly…it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t graceful. It was sweaty and tear filled and I bitched the whole way through. It’s my new method.  It certainly wouldn’t be...
Breathing…but not

Breathing…but not

Sometimes it just feels like you’re breathing, I mean clearly you are…but you can’t get a breath. Have you ever felt this way? It’s often the description from some people after they’ve experienced some kind of loss. There’s no depth to the breath, it’s purely...