Share Nausea. That was what I felt when my Rolfing guy pushed on a spot deep inside my hip during our session Friday afternoon. I didn’t just feel his pressure in my hip, I felt a sickening feeling deep inside my abdomen. Foreign. Undefined. A part of myself I had no connection to, no understanding [...]

What I Found in the Wood.
Share There is a disturbing amount of space and eternity in the old growth redwoods. Disturbing because, as my BFF said in her blog post today, stillness and silence means that you can’t hide behind your addictions, you can’t hide behind your busy, you can’t hide behind the distractions with which you’ve been self-medicating. In [...]

55 Things to Accept Right Now.
Share You cannot make them love you. You cannot make them understand you. You cannot make them forgive you. You cannot make them accept you. Respect you. Be faithful to you. You cannot make them accept themselves. Forgive themselves. Love themselves. You cannot make them accept each other. Forgive each other. Love each other. You [...]

Beginnings Require Ends.
Share It is that time of year. Whether it’s in the blog post I just read about a last week of December journal-a-thon, or my client yesterday afternoon who shared how she is working on her 2012 goals, it’s time to create the next plan, the next set of goals, to begin everything that will [...]

The Management of Expectations
Share I think that’s where broken hearts come from. False hopes. Misaligned expectations. Wishes uncommunicated. Assuming that something, someone, somethey was so aligned with you that your thing will automatically happen. That you will get in, that she will say yes, that he will want you, that they will buy, that the big heavy box [...]







I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.