Dear community,   It looks like yesterday's newsletter really hit a nerve, based on all the responses I received, so now you are receiving a bonus newsletter!   Thank you again for reading, thank you for participating and thank you for all the kind words. It makes me happy to see that I am not the only one thinking about these things, and to untangle and bring to the surface the stories that we are immersed in.   Today's story is about gray hair.   In 2020, at the age of fort

Dear community,   First of all, I thoroughly enjoyed your responses to last week's newsletter. Thank you for reading, thank you for participating and thank you for allowing me a glimpse into your inner worlds. I love the invisible threads of connection and learning about new and different points of view.   Last night, I went to a Super Bowl party. A friend brought a genuinely excellent cake. The kind of cake that makes a room go quiet when the box opens.   She cut it into sli

Dear community,   Last week, one of the artists in my co-working group said he didn't have enough money to buy food and he was hungry. I commissioned a work of art from him that I didn't need because I felt very sorry that he was hungry. Then, I started feeling  bad about my choice. I could've donated the money to a worthier cause- there are children suffering of hunger and cold all over the world etc etc.  Or I could have saved the money. I could have invested it in my own c

Dear community,   You know when a truth hits you so hard you almost can't tell if it's a breakdown or a breakthrough?   I had one of those moments today.   I was in a session with Coach Inga (the coach that helps me learn the skills to be in harmonious relationships, without betraying myself) this morning, feeling grumpy, contradictory, on the edge of a temper tantrum. In other words — deeply in my Shadow (I will explain in more detail the concept of Shadow, as first contemp

If I Forgave Myself, I Would Do This If I forgave myself, I would recommit. To what? To this body. This temple of sinew and the home of my soul that I have fed like a glutton and punished like a penitent. I would recommit to food as sacrament. To tracking it, journaling it, blessing it. To putting intention into meals, not punishment or numbness. I would recommit to my environment. That means a full, somatic, spiritual, and architectural cleanse. Basement. Attic. Every drawer

I have just returned from a 5 day detoxification retreat (fasting mimicking diet, sauna and cold plunge). I'm not going to lie- it wasn't the easiest or the most fun I've had in my life. However, I do love a good, safe challenge and this was precisely that. And apparently, the metabolic benefit of such a challenge can last anywhere between 6 to 12 months. This is the reason my newsletter is late this week- because I have just arrived yesterday from Lockhart, TX. Full trip rep

Dear community, My personal consumption and the overall consumption of the human community have been on my mind a lot these days.  I think the reason I think about this all the time is because I have children, and it makes sense that the resources of this one planet are finite, and that if humanity were to continue to inhabit this place called Earth, we do have to start thinking about our consumption. In other words, what constitutes sustainable consumption? What is a regener

Dear Community, It is winter break here. Since my children were born, the way I interact with time is different: it’s all about their schedule, my guilt about not being a “good mother” (more on this topic in future newsletters), and child-centered activitie. We are staying home during this blessed winter break, so I have made up my mind that I will use this time to rest. I understand rest theoretically. I recommend it to all my patients (I am known to write prescriptions for

Dear Community,   I woke up this morning to the deafening sound of (what it felt like) a thousand leaf blowers. I live in a neighborhood of mostly old, white people. It is the neighborhood that resonated the most with me 11 years ago, when we moved here. I wanted to be close enough to work to be able to take the scooter or walk, because this is how we did it in the old country. We walked everywhere.   In the meantime, in the 11 years my family and I lived in this neighborhood

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