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Inner Critics - Part 1 - What Are They?

Well, who ain’t plagued by big, bad, and nasty Inner Critics with their superpowers of making us feel super bad about ourselves and all that we want to do in our lives. We want them to just shut up and go away.
But I’m here to tell you that we can’t, and shouldn’t, make them shut up and punt them onto...

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Motherhood: The Ultimate Beginner’s Mind

I have always been a very responsible person, even when I was a little girl. If I had to hand in homework at school, I made sure I had conscientiously completed all the exercises, and if there was something I did not understand, I made sure I asked.

As a young employee, I used to get really worried if a minor...

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TMT & Immortality: Or, Turning 49

So, today I just entered the last year of my 5th decade, the last year of the first half of the first century of my life. Well, the last century too, I suppose. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? Next year, I turn 50 and still, unfortunately, and to my bafflement, am not immortal.

It is a question my husband and...

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Valentine's Day. A Journey in Self-Love

Another Valentine’s Day approaches. It might not seem different from the outside, yet it does from within me.

COVID-19 tampered with the spirit of Christmas. I cannot believe it is already gone! This holiday tends to set an atmosphere filled with nagging questions that stay present in the back of mind whispering the longing of someone special…

Again? Nobody celebrating with you?...

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A Technophile’s Waxing of Love for Technology

To those who know me, I am a rabidly unrepentant technophile. It’s true, I love technology. I mostly love the idea of it, the potential of it, the ways in which it can open up whole universes to us. My husband can’t walk past a hardware store, and we both can’t walk past an art supply store, without the swell...

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No Nemo? Keep Swimming!

Turning the Tide in Our Favor
She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” - Elizabeth Edwards
I finished reading a novel that constantly hints Dory’s words in Finding Nemo:
“When life beats you down, just keep swimming, keep swimming, swimming”.
It just hit me how much meaning this message has in my life!...

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Whatever This Is…

The Place of Innocence in a Grown-Up World.
“Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.” ― Jonathan Harnisch
For many years I wrestled with life, at least the life someone within me thought I should be living.

I have little memories of my childhood and what I remember was enmeshed in...

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In the Midst of It All, Spring

When I was younger (teen-hood, from 12 to 18), I lived in Greenville, NC. When we moved there, there wasn’t much by way of a connected community for us.

But my mom quickly met up with the local artsy community, starting up a contra dance and local artist event group. We did find the local Friends, as in the Society of...

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Maybe It’s Not So Bad to Be in the Middle

In the midst of all that is going on, especially the pandemic, I’ve noticed a lot of confusing messages, with two that might be extra confusing for us multipods**:

You should take this time to slow and relax from all that you do.
You should take this time to learn/create something fabulous and amazing.

So, which is it?

There is a lot...

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The Turning of a New Year

Technically, the idea of time as a definable “thing”, is a human concept.

Sure, there is the inexorable forward progression of time (at least that we know of); the turning of the planet, the rising and setting of the sun, seasons changing, the process of aging, etc. We can see “time” at work all around us. This is, without a doubt,...

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It is 2020, and I Am About to Lose Control

It is 2020, and I am about to lose control
A tale of dealing with uncertainty

We are almost at the end of January. This is the right time to start abandoning new year resolutions.

The thing is, I did not have any this year. No goals, no reflection about what happened last year or lessons learnt.

In 2020 it seems a bit ridiculous...

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Loving Art-Making in Times of Resistance

Growing Wings
In the past months, I have seen a renewed confidence in my abilities involving creative energy. That I love making art and being an artist, has never been questioned. It brings me such joy to go about challenges calling for imagination and firing up the wide net of invisible and visible connections that make up for, well “me”. I...

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Inner Critics - Part 2 - Who Are They?

(You can read "Part 1 - What Are They?" here.)
In the previous installment of this piece, I mentioned what Inner Critics are, but only a tiny bit of who they are.

They are our Protectors. And they protect us by any way and any method they can.

These are our Younger parts, from infants to adolescents, maybe some young adults tossed in....

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Inner Critics - Part 3 - How to Start a Dialogue

(You can read "Part 1 - What Are They?" and "Part 2 - Who Are They?" here.)
In the previous installments of this series, I mentioned what & who Inner Critics are, but not really how to start interacting with them.
Well, okay, I did mention the first step - identifying and “making” a character out of them. So, let’s quickly review...

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A New Beacon

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

For many years, my ultimate goal was to emigrate to a place where I could progress freely and hopefully experience a sense of belonging. Sadly, I encountered fierce opposition from my family displayed as increasingly dangerous battles unfolding around the choices the...

The Soul of Resilience. Turning Wounds into Gold

One of those sleepless nights that seem to be plaguing me lately, I opened my tablet and clicked on some streaming app of the many that have joined my screen during the pandemic. TV has a dozing effect on me, I chose some random movie about coming to age and first love. The only thing that left an impression was...

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When Music is Life

Something that brings light, excitement, depth, and strength to life, wouldn’t you want to have a piece of it?

When I was a child, I believed human beings could achieve whatever they could dream of, even if their physical predisposition did not make the idea forthcoming. I thought the human will was a powerful weapon against the odds and that there...

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The Beauty of Being Human

A few months ago a friend of mine told me that her five year old had turned around and asked her out of the blue: “Mum, how do I know I am not a robot?”.

My friend was positively surprised — the little one had not had a chance to watch “The Matrix” yet, so her question came from a genuine...

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I Am OK. Really, I Am OK.

I am OK. Really, I am OK.
Though I know I am not.
2014 feels like a lifetime ago. It was a busy period, as I had just started working for a new manager in my company — it was all about how to adjust to the new team, the new boss and environment, This is London, what else to think about...

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Showing Up and Doing You in a World of Social Media

“Living a double life” is a concept we hear about in movies, series_ and some dreadful divorce stories. I wonder if the number of people who can relate to it would surprise us. My life, for many years, followed suit. It was during high school late years that I entered a contentious space were different definitions of a “good life”...

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Let’s Talk Change

Change. Everyone’s best friend, right?
Not according to… just about everyone I’ve ever met or ever read. Why do you think the self-help industry and healing industries are so prolific and lucrative? Why do you think we are constantly trying to be better, more explored people? Constantly seeking spiritual growth?
Deep down, at least usually on a deeply unconscious level, we...

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Honoring the Passions We Can't Do (Right Now)

We multipotentialites at any given time have a multitude of varied interests and passions swirling around us like so many planets in orbit.

As the New Year begins, we might be looking over our interests, maybe with delight, maybe with excitement and anticipation, but also maybe with a little bit of overwhelm (okay, a lot), and possibly some dread.

There are so...

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In Love with the Grandeur of Humans

It’s February and what we odd humans consider the month of love. And despite our weirdnesses as a species, I just love humans so much.

Grief and Grandeur
Long ago, I formulated something I call The Grief and The Grandeur to describe humans (I am still working on a long article to talk about this in detail), a recognition that we are...

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Emotional Venting

A Cycle of Negativity Hard to Break
These past months have been a revelation about the way I tend to assimilate life’s events. I am both, surprised and annoyed by the realization of how parts of myself working against each other may have contributed to bringing about the kind of wavering outcomes that leave me baffled or plainly frustrated.

I consider myself...

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Relationships!

Oh relationships… love ’em, hate ’em, however you want to approach them, they are going to be a regular part of your life unless you are a hermit or a solitary monastic.

It is the utter existential quality of human beings that we are social creatures and nothing we do can really undo that fact. Most, if not all, of our mental...

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Living Vicariously

In Mona Lisa Smile, a movie set in the 1950s USA, a newly graduated Art historian (Julia Roberts as Watson) enters an elite all-girls ultra-conservative college to start her teaching career. Wanting to make a difference yet intimidated by her smart- knowledgeable students and the strict staff, Watson centers the course around questions like what is art? Is it good...

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Fear Of Missing Out?

New Year’s festivity brings both, a sense of excitement and introspection. For many years I have attached a “theme” to my intentions for the upcoming 12 months born from the reflections and lessons learned and the longings of my heart.

It begins with simple questions

What challenges did I experience?
What did I learn about myself and the world I inhabit?...

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Simply Human

Reassessing “I Am” in Times of Coronavirus
Nowhere land is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as: “an unknown, distant, or obscure place. Miles from nowhere.” It brings to memory long trips in nearly every country I have visited in which not a soul can be seen for miles. I used to reflect on our tendency to “cluster” in cities where we...

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How Time Traveling Changed My Life

How time traveling changed my life
It was the summer of 2015 and a bunch of friends and I had decided that it was the ideal time to enjoy a cultural holiday and visit Rome for a week.

Frankly, once out of England I don’t usually give the weather report a second thought, so I had just thrown in some shorts and...

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Everyday Is a New Day

Emotional reinvention in the age of Coronavirus

May is upon us. April, if not the cruelest, was indeed a lost month. Most of us barely noticed that it came and went while we were still focused on getting used to a frightening, uncertain situation.

Which was kind of inevitable, really. Even when only small adjustments are required, we often sleepwalk our way...

The Turning of a New Year

The Turning of a New Year

January 31, 2020

Technically, the idea of time as a definable “thing”, is a human concept. Sure, there is the inexorable forward progression […]

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It is 2020, and I Am About to Lose Control

It is 2020, and I Am About to Lose Control

January 28, 2020

It is 2020, and I am about to lose control A tale of dealing with uncertainty We are almost at […]

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Whatever This Is…

Whatever This Is…

January 21, 2020

The Place of Innocence in a Grown-Up World. “Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as […]

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New Beginnings

New Beginnings

January 14, 2020

The Double-Sided Edge of Unexpected Events I am not one to set resolutions for the new year, just someone inclined […]

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How Time Traveling Changed My Life

How Time Traveling Changed My Life

December 23, 2019

How time traveling changed my life It was the summer of 2015 and a bunch of friends and I had […]

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A Technophile’s Waxing of Love for Technology

A Technophile’s Waxing of Love for Technology

December 17, 2019

To those who know me, I am a rabidly unrepentant technophile. It’s true, I love technology. I mostly love the […]

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No Nemo? Keep Swimming!

No Nemo? Keep Swimming!

November 19, 2019

Turning the Tide in Our Favor She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, […]

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I Am OK. Really, I Am OK.

I Am OK. Really, I Am OK.

November 5, 2019

I am OK. Really, I am OK. Though I know I am not. 2014 feels like a lifetime ago. It […]

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