Mar 5, 2019 | Travel, Wellness
I recently went on a silent retreat for seven days. The kind where you don’t talk at all and do little other than meditate, alternating between 45-minute sessions of sitting on a cushion and walking mindfully back and forth as if you’re Ricky Ricardo pacing in the...
Mar 6, 2018 | Travel, Wellness
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ―Brené Brown On a recent trip to India, I spent a week at a retreat, doing yoga, meditating, and basically healing my body and soul. I documented my...
Jan 10, 2018 | Health, Travel, Wellness
The truth is that things don’t really get solved.They come together and fall apart.They come together again and fall apart again.It’s just like that.The healing comes from letting therebe room for all of this to happen:room for grief, for relief, for...
Jan 9, 2018 | Travel, Wellness
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. –Lao Tzu Getting to Chile—a narrow strip of land that sits between the Andes mountains to the East and the Pacific ocean to the West—is not quick, direct or easy. But even after three flights and a...
Jun 8, 2015 | Education, Travel
Last year in my son’s eighth grade social studies class, they discussed the civil rights era but according to him, they were short on time and (as he explained) “kind of rushed through it.” So when the movie Selma came out last December, depicting the events that led...
