When Emotion Needs Language Strong emotion can arrive faster than meaning. The nervous system reacts. The body responds. Words come later, sometimes not at all. One of the quiet revolutions of our time is the ability to externalize thoughts in real time — typing them...
When Life Runs Ahead of Us It is easy to move through life without fully being in it.Days pass in routine, distraction, repetition —not because we choose mindlessness,but because the world rewards speedmore than attention. The beginning of a year can act as a quiet...
When Eating Becomes Automatic, Absent, or Emotional Many people have moments when eating happens without presence —reaching for food without hunger,finishing a plate without tasting it,or forgetting entirely that the body has needs at all. Compulsive eating, appetite...
When Fear Pulls You Out of the Present Anxiety and panic don’t simply create worry —they disrupt orientation.The body interprets something (seen or unseen, real or imagined, past or anticipated) as danger,and the nervous system responds as if survival is at stake....
Change is usually imagined as addition: new habits, better behaviors, sharper discipline. But in the work of emotional growth, transformation is often subtractive. The first shift is not action but containment. The pause. When a strong emotion surges, whether anger,...
There is an ancient Japanese phrase: Yawata no Yabu shirazu — “to enter the forest of Yawata and never find your way out.”The bamboo was so dense that light could not reach the ground.A fitting image for how thought can grow thick, tangled, shadowed — and how easily...
