“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche I was twenty-five weeks pregnant when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Still working, still showing up, still dreaming of a gentle homebirth. We had an event at work that day, and I had to walk to it. I remember feeling so out…

by Charley Locke: The deserts of southern California erupted in color last weekend as a carpet of purple sand verbena… white dune evening primroses, orange poppies and other wildflowers emerged in a super bloom that one ranger called “flower-geddon.” “This kind of huge bloom happens maybe once a decade,” says Jim Dice, research manager at the…

by Donna Quesada: This is a guided meditation for anxiety, filmed in my Yoga room, in my home in California. My dog, Marcel, is next to me and you can see him at times; I realized that the recording also picked up his breathing, which hopefully no one minds. Awaken Mind Awaken Spirit Mindfulness &…

by Tara Brach: It’s here in all the pieces of my shame… That now I find myself again. I yearn to belong to something, to be contained In an all-embracing mind that sees me. . . . —Rainer Maria Rilke Our most fundamental sense of well-being is derived from the conscious experience of belonging. Relatedness…