The Poetry Place

Sometimes, it's so fascinating it just needs a little extra time to consider.

Let's share a little space to consider everyday choices and how these choices are a form of self-agency.

This week, we consider the eviction victory and the sweet space of rest found within stillness.

Work & play in collaboration, what do they look like for you?

What is the Downside Up World, you wonder? Come adventure with us on our flight to Portland and our Oregon road trip.

Do we change our environment, or does our environment change us? Perhaps change goes both ways; join us this week as we explore new lighting and how it affects us.

How is it that we are able to experience days that feel as if we are floating inside of a dream, and before the week's end, we can have so much to process that we're awake at 3:30 am? The wild experiences of life, and the edges have expanded just a bit further.

This week, we explore what a couple of wild ant encounters bring up as an inner storyline and how adventures in aunting keep me loving in the present moment.

Join me this week as I share about the surprise baby doll stroller I found on my Saturday morning stroll, and my not-so-surprising level of sass in response to the unmet Saturday morning expectation.

What would happen if we embraced the obstacles in our lives as the path to our best life?

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?