The Long Road of Blog
“It’s as though I were living at last in my eyes, as I have always dreamed of doing, and I think then I know why I’ve come here: to see, and so to go out against new things—oh god how easily—like air in a breeze. It’s true there are moments—foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump—when I’m all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed…”
William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Square One, Story Fondling, and Grieving
The mind is a meaning making machine, so when something happens to us that feels overwhelming, confusing, catastrophic, our mind gets to work to figure out what it all means.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted — Part Six—Thought Work and Drugs, I Mean Medicine
I got derailed by taking the Wayfinder life coach training.
Life Coaching Translated for Those Who Were Adopted — Part Five — Story Fondling/Story Foundling
Most adopted people have stories about being told Enough already or Everyone feels like that or Aren’t you just lucky to have a family? when speaking about adoption.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted— Part Four —Living With Two Body Compasses
In addition to the confusion I have between distinguishing between my nervous system and my body compass, I would like to talk about the confusion I have as an adopted person over the existence of having both a body compass and an adopted body compass.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted—Part Three —the Body Compass and the Nervous System
I have found that to be embodied and to be an adopted person is a paradox.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted — Part Two
I jumped right into the topic in my last post without covering what life coaching is.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted — Part One
Asking someone whose home base is survival what their dream life is like can be like asking a drowning person what they would like for lunch.
On Recording Your Book for Audible — Guest Post by Emma Stevens
Narrating a book you’ve written is an amazing and rewarding experience, but it does come with challenges.
Driving Across the Country, Again
I first drove from Massachusetts to California to be a sophomore at Occidental College when I was twenty-one.
The Art of Feeling Goodbye
It occurred today that I keep leaving places, people, and things because some part of me is trying to figure out how to get goodbye right.
Gratitude, Adoption, and Feeling the Impossible
Out in the world when I tell someone I’m adopted and they tell me I must be grateful, something else entirely happens. It’s like my cells are bumper cars and they start crashing into each other.