A somatic reflection on September, the default mode network, and the quiet power of pausing. When was the last time you actually paused? Not the pause of scrolling through Instagram for twenty minutes. Not the pause of the commute home when your body is still braced from the day. I mean the pause where your shoulders drop, your breath deepens, and there is space to hear what is actually alive inside you. For most of us, the honest answer is: too long ago. We move through the year at a pace...

A somatic reflection and an invitation to come back to yourself. "What does it really mean to feel grounded?" One evening, sitting around a fire on a camping trip, a dear friend turned to me and asked me that question. A conversation around the fire · the question that inspired this piece She was asking in the context of plant medicine, of deeper healing ceremonies, of the extraordinary states we sometimes reach through intense inner work. I understood her question. But something in me wanted...

The past six months have been some of the most challenging of my life. The story behind a new workshop on resilience, reinvention, and the courage to continue, with Shermine Boustany.