Spirituality
‘Techniques, while helpful, can become traps. When we become fixated on perfecting a particular method or measuring our progress in meditation, we can lose sight of the true aim of practice: insight into the nature of reality.’ Everyday Buddhism
Hello, I am here to tell my story in hopes it could help someone else on their life journey. I was actively in addiction for longer than ten years. I have 3 kids. My kids were taken by my mother. Long story short, she did not agree with the man I was seeing, who I had...
I have been homeless and on drugs for the past 20 or more years of my life. In June of 2025, I got a horrible abscess on my neck from shooting drugs. No drug addict wants to put down the drugs and go to the hospital. That is why most of us die. But I knew if I did not...
After fifteen years of a beautiful and loving marriage, I lost my husband, my partner, my anchor, and my best friend. Overnight, life demanded a version of me I had never known before, one that had to be strong, composed, and capable of holding everything together for...
My life was going fine until one day I was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy, a rare kidney disease that progresses and has no cure. My life felt shattered like glass into a million pieces. Thinking about my husband and my six-year-old daughter, I could not process the...
This week, Christiane Wolf offers a guided practice to meet your own body in pain and relieve that sense of isolation by internally connecting with others who understand your experience. The post A 12-Minute Meditation to Meet the Body In Pain appeared first on...
‘The greatest determination is similar to the one of a beginner who has just started practising meditation.’ Kusan Sumin
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” ~Brené Brown Several years ago, I wrote a heartfelt letter to my estranged mother, articulating my deep feelings about her perceived lack of empathy and care. My...
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and myself at the same time.” ~Prentis Hemphill I thought I had seen the worst of it. I thought I knew what it meant to watch someone you love disappear into addiction. My mother taught me that lesson long before I...
‘Delusion and awareness are not static forces; they are in constant motion. In one moment, we may be lost in delusion, caught up in a story of self. In the next moment, awareness may arise, illuminating the truth and revealing the emptiness of that story.’ Everyday...