Storyteller release and book launch
It’s been five years. Five years of work, five years of ups and downs, five years of wondering why I even bother and then realizing that I don’t really have a choice but to write. It forces its way out of me. And as inconvenient and frustrating as that can be in moments, I have […]
My Problem With Wellness
In the last class of this year’s Yoga & Meditation Vacation in Paros, I spoke to the students about the concept of « wellness » and how the word is a source of irritation for me. The irritation has little to do with the actual word, but rather because there doesn’t seem to be another word that’s […]
The Tension of Opposites
feel. Deeply. I always have. As a kid I was identified as the emotional barometer of the family; when issues arose with my parents or my siblings, my emotional state would indicate that instability. I was labeled as “sensitive”, a label slapped on me because I showed what I felt, I (eventually) spoke what no […]
Navigating Change Online Workshop
Join Bram for a 90-minute workshop designed to offer guidance and direction for those at a crossroads in their life. With the right questions and practices being offered, new insights and realizations will be attained helping to offer some gentleness and accompaniment as we navigate this transitional moment in life. This workshop is open to […]
*This Is Just A Test*
This year has very much been about testing each one of us to see if and when we will finally be ready to heal. Not from the fallout of Pandemica, but rather from the wounds which we have been carrying with us for decades. Sometimes it takes a pandemic to recontextualize life, and with life recontextualized we find ourselves dealing with old patterns of fear, old patterns of helplessness, old patterns of getting on with life without looking at what’s scaring us senselessly, old patterns of projection/blaming/suppressing/repressing/avoiding/anesthetizing.
Pandemica
We have had a challenging year, challenging on so many levels. Thrust into uninvited change, most of us were forced to look at our relationships to our careers, to money, to our husbands/wives/partners, to our children, to our health, and, most of all, to the structure of life that we have bought into, played along […]
The Kindness Calendar
The Kindness Calendar. A beautiful initiative my younger brother posted on social media and which was put out into the world by https://www.actionforhappiness.org/. I am making it my daily Mindfulness practice for the month, and I invite everyone to do the same. For more information, visit the latest episode of The Examined Life with Bram […]
True Warriorship
Over the past few weeks I have acted on, with intention, my disdain for the outgoing so-called president (my autocorrect tried to capitalize the P in president when I intentionally made it lower case for a reason) through the posting of memes and some thoughts written out to share. In doing so, I knew that […]
A Friendly Reminder
Just a quick word to remind us all that the only thing we are not being encouraged to do in life is to take care of each other. We are encouraged to wear a mask, distance ourselves physically while psychologically internalizing the effects of the term « social distancing », see each other as potentially fatal and […]