Yesterday, I spent a meandering day with a friend I hadn’t seen in several years. It was a day full of personal and interesting conversation. We drove just outside of Dublin, winding through the narrow roads flanked by stone walls, the hillsides covered in the brilliant yellow of the gorse wildflower, the mystical Irish sea…
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Una donna trentenne single, che da tempo vuole ricevere affetto e contatto ma percepisce di essere invisibile. La sua solitudine le duole dentro. Un giorno, stanca del disagio, abbandona la sua carriera programmata e inizia a formarsi come terapista e massaggiatrice. Una brillante avvocato, che ritiene di essere bloccata in un matrimonio senza amore e…
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There are times when I don’t recognize the little moments of shame. The shoves and bruises to my sense of self and place in the world that can happen during my day. It’s so much easier to recognize it when something big happens – a rejection, a failure, a complete denial. Those moments knock us…
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Yesterday, I put on my 10 layers of clothing to go out and brave the unusually cold London weather. I walked to the Tube with my head down, as the wind hit my face. I felt an ache in my heart. I followed the motions of the commuters. Quick. Efficient. Linear. This did…
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Freedom. We know it’s there, otherwise we wouldn’t struggle for it. Freedom from pain, stuckness, smallness, loneliness. Freedom from old thoughts, old stories, old behaviors. If we could simply leap beyond the conflicts, dissatisfactions and insecurities into the vastness of freedom, we would. But we are where we are – some more, some less- so…
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