by Kate | May 24, 2017 | connectedness
These last few days, I had the privilege of watching the online Mindful Relationships Summit. Here is some wisdom from Dr. Harville Hendrix: The universe is connection. Everything is connecting to everything, everywhere all the time. Since we are threads in the...
by Kate | May 16, 2017 | Chronic healing, connectedness
I know a woman who also has MS. We’ll call her Cynthia. She is about five years older than I am and her disease is a bit more advanced. Each person with MS has a different experience, but Cynthia and I seem to be traveling down the same path. Jenny, the PCA who works...
by Kate | May 9, 2017 | connectedness
Social connection is so much a topic of our time that the Huffington Post has a directory set aside for it. Feeling connected is important. When we feel connected, our bodies release good hormones. When we are connected, we have help with problem-solving. Connection...
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 | Jul 28, 2016 | Advocacy, connectedness, Transformation
When I was a child, I was a fan of a book called The Geranium On The Windowsill Just Died But Teacher You Went Right On. For me to continue to write about kind promises with the world in its present chaos, I would have to be as blithely insensitive as the teacher in...
by Kate | Apr 28, 2016 | Chronic healing, connectedness
Believe me, I get it: you don’t want to connect with anybody when you’re not feeling well. You are spending so much energy dealing with your body it’s hard to have any left even to make a phone call. Besides, what if you hear “how are you?” An honest answer seems out...
