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Surf Your Fear to Find Your Joy

December 2, 2020 sidewaz5 2 Comments

What had literally felt like a living scribble inside me was quieter now. I breathed, anchoring in my body, picked the end of the knot and… lifted.

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Posted in: Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness Filed under: emotional health, Fear, frustration, joy, mindfulness, relationships
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Watering Grief

November 30, 2020 sidewaz5 Leave a comment

Joy rides our wounds.
Burn it out! Burn it out!
No. No. No.
And.
No.

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Posted in: Creativity, Poetry Filed under: grief, joy, nature, painting, poetry, watercolor
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The Sanity of Now

November 28, 2020 sidewaz5 2 Comments

We stand, at all given moments, in the flow of the sacred blood, life energy of the universe – The River of Stars. There is a wind there, a heartbeat. It animates us as surely as the sun brings energy to this planet.

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Posted in: Creativity, Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness, Monologue Filed under: awareness, creativity, enlightenment, mental health, resilience, self-awareness

How to Stop Wearing Your Emotional Armor

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Find more joy in your life. Photo by Henry Hustava on Unsplash Blinking, I stand in the sunlit living room,…

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Posted in: Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness Filed under: emotional health, mental health, relationships, resilience, vulnerability

Explosions, New Life, and Forgiveness

July 30, 2020 sidewaz5 Leave a comment

By Diana Carson-Walker Originally published on Medium It’s a beautiful day in mid-May. Rare for the Pacific Northwest, and my…

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Posted in: Life Lessons, Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness Filed under: acceptance, aging, forgiveness, life lessons, mental health, self-forgiveness

Integration

July 31, 2018 sidewaz5 Leave a comment

For the past five years, this has been my obsession: become a professional actor living and working in London.  SPOILER…

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Know the Enemy

January 2, 2016 sidewaz5 2 Comments

“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” – Walt Kelly Do you have this sinking feeling that somehow…

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Posted in: Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness

Shadow Boxing

December 14, 2015 sidewaz5 2 Comments

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I…

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Posted in: Life Lessons, Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness
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Artist’s Apprentice

October 18, 2015 sidewaz5 Leave a comment

“It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of…

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Posted in: Creativity, Fiction

The All-Seeing Eye

October 12, 2015 sidewaz5 Leave a comment

There is some sort of underlying silence to the world that seems a living, breathing presence. When you are loud,…

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Posted in: Mind/Body/Spiritual/Emotional Wellness

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