Share This was a hard week. A horrible 4 day migraine, sick with a cold, and doing that while on a camping trip. But somehow, through all this pain and mess and trial, I’ve ended up with something to say and a greater understanding about faith. (Funny how that works.) (Looks like this video is [...]
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Review (updated): Question The Rules 2.0. Here’s to us crazy ones.
Share Question the Rules is for people who think they might be crazy. For those of you who think you might be the only one who can’t stand to live and work in the normal way anymore. Where the default “shoulds” and rules of society don’t work for you – they don’t make you happy [...]
On Faith and the Pit of Futility.
Share Faith isn’t about the days when things are going well. Faith isn’t about the days when the launch brings in thousands, when the spouse comes home and gives you a kiss and asks you how your day has been and actually listens to your answer, when everyone is healthy, when you have a fully [...]
EveryDay7: Migraines & Faith & Keeping On With It.
Share I recorded this video last week, when I had a 4 day migraine that would not respond to meditation. Didn’t edit or post it, because that was a bit much for me in that condition. Also here – realizing that the spiritual component, faith and my relationship with God – is what *all* of [...]
Where Anger Lives.
Share Nausea. That was what I felt when my Rolfing guy pushed on a spot deep inside my hip during our session Friday afternoon. I didn’t just feel his pressure in my hip, I felt a sickening feeling deep inside my abdomen. Foreign. Undefined. A part of myself I had no connection to, no understanding [...]
Beginnings Require Ends.
Share It is that time of year. Whether it’s in the blog post I just read about a last week of December journal-a-thon, or my client yesterday afternoon who shared how she is working on her 2012 goals, it’s time to create the next plan, the next set of goals, to begin everything that will [...]
Tactics of Transformation and Fire Station No. 1
Share Today, I am different. There is a calm. A grounding. An ability to see things how they are, not that which my worry imagines they could horribly metamorphosize. Not how they should have been if I had know better, if I was a good mother, if they had treated me right, if I could [...]
Fear or Fool
Share How many tears have I shed in the last week, the last month, the last three years? Tears of suffering from the harsh lies of the bitch in the corner. Tears of hopelessness, tears of trapped, tears of working, pushing, forcing, trying to make it happen so hard, for so long, so many times [...]
18 Again (or, the post wherein I say the f word four times)
Share I fucking hate this. Yet again, here I am. Searching for another apartment. Figuring out how to document an undocumented life. Looking at debts and deposits, at underwater assets and overlapping bills – and wanting to fight. To weep. To pound my fist against the zipcar steering wheel and screech at the universe in [...]
The Faith of Art
Share I opened up the Travel & Leisure magazine and just started ripping. Tearing out glossy pages at random, letting my hands choose relevance without judging or thinking or deciding what each page would be used for. Then, removing the edges of each piece until it emerged. The word, the phrase, the tiny pig figurine. [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.