Do you ever have that feeling in the morning, the  I just need to get through today feeling?
Do you see all the hurdles between you and a moment you look forward to?
Is this moment a weekend? A vacation? A moment when the sun goes down, and the dishes are done and you can pause before your next act of living?
And then perhaps,as you go about your busy day,  a little bomb is dropped.
An anger, a frustration, a sadness, a realization?
Something you must think about, but you don’t have time, …

So, bears have been showing up in my thread of consciousness.
My friend Ming was talking about bears. I was having trouble with my kidneys and she told me that bears shut down their kidneys when they hibernate and then turn them back on, in the spring.
And then this novel I was reading had a bear in it (who was a killer).
And then my friend Lilly brought me bear root (Osho root, powerful stuff)
and then Ming did a reiki session on me last night and a big brown bear was there. When …

I often go into a blog-post writing with the hope that I can solve a problem, once and for all, in the space of 500 words.
I feel like I’m writing things like “Transplant your own liver in 5 easy steps!”
But, there’s so much to say.  And I want to get it out and then talk about it.
Thank you for reading this, and talking with me about it, and finding value sometimes, and tolerating my words when the value is hard to see (or maybe not there at all. or only …

Previously, we talked about handling our feelings without hurting ourselves.
Today, we’re talking about handling our feelings without hurting others.
I hesitate to write about my children, because I want their words to be their own.
And yet, I think I can pinpoint the moment I stopped falling apart in front of  my children.
When I was 23 and my son was not-quite-3.  I found myself failing all of my courses at college.
I found that my little fledging restaurant had gone under (when a co-owner absconded with our wee, but sustainable profits).
I found …

So, in parts 1 and 2, we did very basic things.  We identified our emotions and we felt them.
Was part 2 hard for you?
Impossible?
For many, it is.
Sit still and feel something?  Sigh.

And he never did guess, in her cast iron dress, she was burning beyond recognition.
– Shawn Colvin
Do you feel so angry inside, and yet you want others to believe that certainly, life is swell, and you are okay and not one of those crazy hysterical types? Do you feel a smouldering rage?  Do you feel misunderstood?
I’m talking to …