The Poetry Place

Do you carry around a ladder story inside of you? How about a story about Lightning Bugs? This week, we explore ladders, lightning bugs, and untangle all life's things.

This week, we explore the practice of reflection and intentionally placing distance between our internal sensations and our responses, creating processing space. We begin to explore another helpful mental construct to slow our thoughts down when something outside of us has us spinning and how to recenter. The Wheel of Awareness

Do you ever struggle with answering the question, " What is the right thing?" In this episode, we explore how even in the smallest of decisions, we can be asking this very question and striving to find the right answer.

In this week's episode, we explore what life is opening up to us and presenting for our acceptance.

What seems to be standing in your way today, and what could exist on the other side of this? This week, we'll explore walls and what exists on the other side of them.

In this episode, we consider the process of healing, the unfolding and refolding into us.

How can we update our model of self-care to choose what is truly best for us, now aware that our brain does not differentiate between physical and emotional pain?

Blaise Pascal would say, in a difficult time, you should always keep something beautiful in your heart. What beauty are we gathering and carrying in our hearts today?

What goodness is circling back around, what beauty is emerging from the soil of our soul, and how are we cooperating with the destiny of our existence?

How am I being a good friend to myself today and nourishing my soul?

What's asking for your attention today? In this week's episode, we dive into Ben Franklin's quote, An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and our human inner connectivity.

What is making your heart leap with Awe & Wonder these days? For me, rollerskates and the winter solstice are bubbling up joy.

Buttons: Holding us together and calling us to our undoing.

Victor Frankl has said, "between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Let's explore what that space can look like.

What is it about this life that makes you want to pause and linger inside all this miraculous wonder?

What is it that seeds help us to see?

Experiencing the beauty of life right where we are.

Have you ever been surprised by your ability to change your mind, welcoming an unknown relateability? In this week's episode, I explore how fear can be internalized as a source of beauty.

I wonder what games you like to play & I wonder why you want to play them? Today's episode notices the games we enjoy playing and how they can add variety to our days.

Do you need to give yourself permission to take up space and exist? I do too. Consider this episode as an opportunity to sign your permission slip.

A short exploration in finding safe places to build and create a home.

From the book Poetry of Presence, Grace Butcher's poem "On the Necessity of Snow Angels for the Well-Being of the World" brings to mind a delightful recollection of snow angel escapades.

This week, we enjoy a light-hearted and humorous conversation about the trees and the ones holding onto their leaves. I wonder what the trees are whispering to you these days? Voice memo me at hdsandlin@gmail.com

This week, I explore life lived with my heart at the center. I touch upon the lives of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. I also share a poem of blessing by John O'Donohue. As promised, here is a link to the History Chicks Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7dqlIAdQaybiJrfrtCbRnW?si=c8522458eeff4426

In this week's episode, we explore how to embrace the parts of ourselves that can be more challenging to accept and integrate into our being. We discuss how embracing honesty is an act of giving love to ourselves. Here is the link to the poem mentioned in this week's episode. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5foa1VYyDpo3WmLwrkLxFR?si=759cea9ede714979