Visit here for more of true-life novel The Caged Girls. Part Four: I Heard a Caged Girl Sing Chapter Eleven. I gingerly placed her sleeping body on the red microfiber sofa. She twitched slightly, but...
This week was an especially intense one for me. Astrologically speaking there was a (super) new moon in Aquarius (and new moons have always affected me more greatly than full); additionally, Venus went direct and Mercury went into...
Read Part One of The Caged Girls: The Prologue Through Chapter Three. Read Part Two of The Caged Girls: A Life in the Mind (Chapters Four & Five). Part Three: Yoga Pants, Sticky Mats & Freedom. Chapter Six. I...
Read Part One here. Part Two: A Life in the Mind. Chapter Four. Snow flies furiously outside of my bedroom window. My turquoise quilt envelops me like a gentle shroud, allowing me to sink inside....
Part One. The prologue. My body used to be a cage. I used to claw and worm and wriggle and starve myself to fit through its bars. Because the real me was trapped...
Upward-facing dog might be one of the top 10 yoga poses (after all, it is in the sun salute series), but this pose is not simple or even for many yogic bodies, regardless of...
Here goes. My second dirty secret spill, in what I hope will be a weekly special here on my website. The above picture is from roughly four years ago, when I was asked to be...
When Loss Inspires Guilt. I found out this week about the loss of an old friend. I haven’t spoken to this friend since high school, and I’m now in my 30s. I was surprised...
I’m sitting here realizing something: that I will never, ever be able to let go. Ever. Letting go can bite me. For real. But I need to forgive. I just sat down to talk with my best...
My shoulders ache. My neck is tight. They’re sore from holding up my tired and aching heart. The world isn’t always an easy place to inhabit. It can rub a sensitive soul the wrong...
