Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown

The important thing to remember is, you are allowed to change your mind. Anytime, always. You are always freaking allowed to change your mind.

Make a list of what you always want to remember, and then refer to the remembering practices above to move toward them: I have a body, and I love this body. Eating snacks while I write or work helps me not reach for the phone or other distractions. I love seltzer. Baths help my back hurt less. The universe has an ultimate timeline, and I accept it.

The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there. This is not practice for something, but complete practice, which suffices unto itself. In Zen training they speak of sweeping the floor, or eating, as practice. Walking as practice.”

The constant return. The forever remembering.

Prayer for Practice May my practice be easeful May my practice be fruitful May my practice be consistent May my practice be easy to return to when I am inconsistent May my practice be fluid May my practice be rooted in the unknown May my practice be what I can return to when I am far away from myself

Your bones and your muscles and your heart hold everything you’ve ever dreamed of. Ever dreamed up. Ever dreamed about. You can have the life you want, even if you don’t think you deserve

There are three options I come to when processing: Processing alone Processing with friends and others Processing one-on-one with a mentor/therapist/sponsor/psychic, etc.

Focus on the simplicity of new pathways and new meanderings and ways to pivot to take you back to what works—each time with a little less fuck you for leaving and a little more welcome back.

“THINGS TO RETURN TO”—i.e., morning pages, stretching, skateboarding, herbal infusions, Beach Monday, walking, hydrating, reading, quilting, dancing.