Attachment Relationships
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Domestic Monastery Part 3: My Own Monastery Bell
I roll over in bed at two thirty in the morning this past winter, hearing my infant’s cries. Usually in that moment all I want to do is keep sleeping. Yet there are breaths now when a thought reminds me:… Continue reading
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Domestic Monastery Part 2: Tailoring the Framework to What Your Life Already Is
It seems I have a choice. Either I can be frustrated that parenting inhibits my desire to do other things that I consider “more spiritual,” or I can accept the current limitations of my life and trust that those very… Continue reading
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Roots
Yet despite my desire to sink in and let go, I cannot. It is like the bright yellow roots I am hacking. I am stuck in this world of resistance even when the thorny branches are gone. I chip away… Continue reading
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Facing a Double Bind: A Birthing Dilemma
At its best, is not the process of birth itself a form of surrender? One where my body delivers and yields, opening up to an embodied way of giving life that has been happening since women first knew existence. It… Continue reading
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The Intimate Expression of One’s Own Being
We are inextricably linked and interconnected with everyone around us. Most of us live oblivious to it, our ego teaching us to think in an individualized way. But if we are all made in the image of the Divine, if… Continue reading
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My Most Generous Interpretation
What if I set aside instinctual judgments and assumptions about my relationships, choosing instead my most generous interpretation of what is going on? Continue reading
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No One Else Can Grow Me Up but Me
How many times during a day or a week do you expect someone else to solve your problem? Or to put it another way: how many times do you feel internally upset or dysregulated and your automatic response is to… Continue reading
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Moving Beyond Political Bifurcation Towards the “Law of Three”
I have a news flash for you. God doesn’t take sides. He’s not a Democrat, and he’s not a Republican. He’s not even an American. To view God as such is incredibly small-minded. Continue reading
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Emotional Overwhelm and the Welcoming Prayer
Subtitle: What “Surrender” Doesn’t Mean. I’m struggling so much this week with internal drama. There are external pressures and relationships in my life right now that are creating a pressure-cooker of dissatisfaction and anger in my being. I’ve been angry… Continue reading
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An Infinite Number of Ways to be Born Again
Being born again is about presence and a way of being in the world. It’s about reaching for new lenses each time the one you currently hold gets too scratched or cloudy. We grow out of our current stages of… Continue reading
Danielle Klafter 