Yoga for the Incarcerated: Moksha Behind Bars.
The recidivism rate is lower for prisoners associated with yoga and meditation. Mindfulness experiences allow the incarcerated to experience healing.
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prison
Waking Up: I Was in Prison Long Before I Ever Broke the Law.
The prison without is a projection of the prison within. Prisons aren't just built by cement and steel. There are far worse ones comprised of the ego.
Why I Didn’t Report: Become Your Story’s Steward Rather Than Its Hostage.
Survivors witness and feel beneath the story... Fragmented, often locked away in an unconscious vault; we banish pain in order to survive it.
Where Shall We Place the Sorrows? {poetry}
It is all you, it is all in you
breathe your sorrows small
love them small
live them small
We know it is a big ask
but you must make room for your sorrow
I Want to Be Free from This Prison.
My rib cage feels like iron bars representing a prison cell, my heartbeat like the sound of the death march as I await my time on death row.
Silently Screaming For the Voiceless From Within the Prison of my Culture.
I don't know how to reconcile the reality that most people don't believe we've been doing these things for a long time, while my culture says I can't talk about it.
So Say We All, So Said Me.
I spoke instead of regretting letting insecurity win yet another daily battle. I spoke about my dad, alcoholism, prison, sidewalk chalk, spirituality.
Listen To The Pleas From Your Inner Child: They Are The Key.
As I began to acknowledge my inner children, see them, hear them and love them, their unmet needs became easier to recognize and they began reaching out to me in healthier, less destructive ways.
I’m Taking Back ‘I Love You’. {fiction}
Once upon a time, 'I love you' was reserved for lovers. Sure, that’s the obvious one, but even that doesn’t fit all the time.
Learning to Be Well: Detecting and Dismantling Fear-Based Manipulation.
Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.