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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tactics of Transformation and Fire Station No. 1
Share Today, I am different. There is a calm. A grounding. An ability to see things how they are, not that which my worry imagines they could horribly metamorphosize. Not how they should have been if I had know better, if I was a good mother, if they had treated me right, if I could [...]
Fear or Fool
Share How many tears have I shed in the last week, the last month, the last three years? Tears of suffering from the harsh lies of the bitch in the corner. Tears of hopelessness, tears of trapped, tears of working, pushing, forcing, trying to make it happen so hard, for so long, so many times [...]
18 Again (or, the post wherein I say the f word four times)
Share I fucking hate this. Yet again, here I am. Searching for another apartment. Figuring out how to document an undocumented life. Looking at debts and deposits, at underwater assets and overlapping bills – and wanting to fight. To weep. To pound my fist against the zipcar steering wheel and screech at the universe in [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.