Posts by Craig

Hello all, “Ease into the habitually restricted places” is a prompt I heard from a yoga instructor. She was speaking about listening to your body in a deeper, more mindful way. The prompt is a good reflection for letting go, for moving into the tight places of your body and allow them to ease. These tight places are often emotionally painful places as well. Grief, pain, sadness, vulnerability are things that we tend to...

Hello, I wanted to write a message of comfort due to the recent tragic shooting in Colorado. It is a scary and sad thing that happened this Friday. My thoughts go out to all of us, but especially to the families whom this violence fell upon. To all of those families, I’m very sorry this happened. Take care, take comfort. Talking and being with friends and family helps. There are professional counselors who are trained in dealing...

Hello, Families! Did you ever dream of winning Olympic Gold? Maybe as a kid, maybe as an adult. Maybe right now, maybe never. What event did you want to win? What would be your favorite moment? That first moment you become aware of your score, your time? Standing on top of the podium, holding flowers, smiling when you had to bend over to have your medal placed around your neck? Listening to your national anthem as your countries flag...

Hello, Families! How do we act with compassion even when we are feeling hurt, pain, anger, betrayal? First things first: if you feel like shooting the laptop, don’t. It is time for you to self-soothe. Get away, take a break. If target practice helps, then go get a case of orange soda and drink half of it because you loved it as a kid. Then explode the other half with your target practice. Do this on your own–don’t...

Hello, Fathers and Sons!   Does this sound familiar? You wake up in the morning to the shrilling of an alarm and mercilessly push yourself out of bed. You wince and suck in your breath as you hobble to the bathroom as your ankles creak and scream at you. Back is stiff, neck is stiff, your body is resisting you and all the while you are grumbling unhappy thoughts. Then you try to distract yourself from these aches by thinking...