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A Wave in the Ocean
Pandemic, Vulnerability, Self-Improvement Jessica Ackerman Pandemic, Vulnerability, Self-Improvement Jessica Ackerman

A Wave in the Ocean

Right now, we are in a global and personal crisis, and we are being asked to hold many big emotions and sensations in the one container of our being. Joy with sorrow. Trust with fear. Boredom with anxiety. Patience with uncertainty. And it is coming up as a general feeling of stress. A pressing on our system. And as a system, we are really one organism, all of us, connected. And we cannot really compartmentalize; because that "stress" reaches beyond the bounds of our individual selves. Together, the nature of our experience is vast and diverse, fragile and fleeting.

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Training for Life.... Every Day. 

Training for Life.... Every Day. 

Exhausted is not necessarily suffering. Exhausted can be exhilarating. Exhausted can be wrung out to the extent that you let go of what is holding you back. It is the place of finding depth, staying in when you want to get out, deciding to find your own limit, choosing to show up, getting past your first wind so you can get to your second wind. Exhausted is your body saying ‘thank you’ for the reminder that you are alive. It is a sign that you are in training, and every moment is strengthening you for this life and whatever life-quakes arise. And this training, this getting stronger; it requires peeling away layers to get vulnerable and real with yourself.

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Epic habits to make your routine flow.

Epic habits to make your routine flow.