Share Consider the spoon. The spoon did not decide to be a spoon. Her spooning is the natural expression of the fibers of her being. Even more, her spooning is the natural expression of her creator, embodied in this corporal existence inside the physicality of her, the spoon. It is that simple. It is that [...]
About Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
Creating Space for Ecstasy via Morning & Evening Routines
Share I regularly forget to eat. Forget to sit. Forget to write. Forget to read. Forget to turn off the internet or get into bed or jump in the shower or take the vitamins in my extra-large pills-by-day organizer from Walgreens. And then it’s 11 PM or 11 AM or 5:35 in the morning and [...]
I don’t deserve this english muffin.
Share I don’t deserve this english muffin. Not just because it’s all carby and toasted and smothered in real butter. But because this morning I haven’t earned my food yet. There are tasks yet unfinished. The unanswered emails, the unbought gifts, the unwashed dishes, the unlaunched sites, the uncollected receivables, the uninterviewed experts, the unresponded [...]
twenty-eight days: misplacing my voice and other reasons to pick up a pen
Share The temporary excuse was the failure of a single digit. The diagnosis of osteoarthritis in the middle knuckle of my right ring finger – stiff, swollen – necessitating aleve and rest and splint and ice and the sticking of my flesh with needles. I couldn’t type. Couldn’t write. Was stuck with videos and hunt [...]
The Cavewoman Inside
Share I’ve had a history of worrying, tension, anxiety … and no matter what I do, how much I rearrange my schedule or workout or try to meditate or relax, I wasn’t able to stop freaking out on a regular basis. Then last weekend I learned the tension wasn’t exactly me … Do you have [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.