What If The Popular Truth Doesn’t Match Your Own Truth?
What if the crowd-pleasing words don't match the knowing that lives in your own body, the experiences that have formed your own history?
All Posts By:
Leah Spicer-Pownall
Commit, Or Leave: The Art Of Long-Term Commitment.
The texture of commitment hasn’t been a grandiose cinematic score. Daily, it feels more like a Bach Suite -- sweet, rhythmic, flowing, precise, simple.
5 Lessons From The Dragonfly.
A dragonfly can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, and hover... The dragonfly knows what we learn: the path will never be linear. It isn’t supposed to be.
Stories from Stones. {poetry}
Each star gathers one of her stories
and burns through the sorrow of its soul
until each one turns its head
and sings a song of forgiveness.
Joy Is A River: This Is What Happens When We Do Things From Our Soul.
This year has taught me one thing: In doing fewer things and sitting with nothingness and boredom, I’ve started hearing the murmurs of my soul.
5 Signs That Dance Is Your Soul’s Language.
Dance lovingly gives us the opportunity to love, sometimes with toughness, on ourselves, and face all of the things that make us want to shrink head-on.
The Soul Wound and the Infinite Possibility of the Unknown.
We are not taught how to navigate the uncomfortable complexity of simplicity, how to be uncomfortable or embrace grief as an ally of an open heart.
Dreamscape: All Things Change, So Why Shouldn’t I? {Poetry}
In my mind, things are different -- I think that is always the case.
I don’t care about drama,
I care about
the trees, yet that is somewhat dramatic.
The Unlit World of the Heroin Junkie.
The fatal overdose -- yes, you can overdose and still live -- almost never happens when the junkie is shooting every day.
The Fire Goddess Burns Within You.
Maintain the direction of your fire, as it blazes up into the sky. Construct the container that gives your story form, hold nothing back...