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The Car Seat of Purification: Breaking Free from Patterns That Keep Us Stuck
Our sensorium feels something coming and we react out of habituated patterns to protect ourselves. Let's say we are overwhelmed.....
Eileen Knott
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Hearts and Circuits: The Intricate Dance Between Human Emotions and AI in Relationships
Falling in love with another human being is a complex and multifaceted emotional experience that is intricately tied to the neurochemistry
Eileen Knott
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I Am Fine (Not)
I Am (Not) Fine The tears rolled down her cheeks in a torrent of liquid sadness. " Are you ok?" I asked, which is what we say when...
Eileen Knott
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Healing Financial Wounds: How Trauma Shapes Your Money Mindset
Healing Financial Wounds: How Trauma Shapes Your Money Mindset Frugality was the money mindset theme I grew up with. I wore my brothers...
Eileen Knott
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To Make a Cake, You Have to Break a Few Eggs
In order for us to feel better, have more energy, be at peace or live purposefully the energetic-emotional patterns must be undone
Eileen Knott
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The Big Box Gift From Walmart
One doesn’t usually associate Walmart with spirituality, but for me it became a temple or church of sorts, a place for deep practice, and
Eileen Knott
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The Art of Self-Expression: Igniting Personal Growth Through Effective Communication
In our journey of personal growth, we often overlook this one aspect: the ability to effectively express our needs wants and desires clearly
Eileen Knott
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Kintsugi: Metaphor for Healing and Resilience
This ancient technique of Kintsugi, or golden joinery, offers a powerful metaphor for the healing process.
Eileen Knott
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The Wandering Mind and Unhappiness
I CAN’T STAND THIS! We have all been there. We are doing something we can’t wait to be done with. We are hating it. Time is moving...
Eileen Knott
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The Nightshade Nightmare
What's a Nightshade? It's Summertime. The garden is bountiful with those tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplants. But did you know they...
Eileen Knott
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Healing Dissociation: The Power of Grounding and Embodied Presence Practices
Female Meditator in lotus position in the sky with tree roots anchoring into rocks What is Dissociation? When I began my healing journey...
Eileen Knott
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When Our Trauma Response Keeps Us from Healing
REASONS I GIVE MYSELF NOT TO HEAL “ I am too old” " I don’t want to go there—lets just leave it in the past” “ I’ve tried _____ and it...
Eileen Knott
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The Algorithm of Anxiety: Taming the Chaos
Anxiety can be scary and threatening as it feels like this craziness has taken over and you have no control.
Eileen Knott
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The Flower of Practice
The last thing I want to do when I am feeling bad is sit with myself. I want desperately to not feel what I feel. I want to scroll,...
Eileen Knott
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Life and the Cosmic Pizza Chef
Life and the Cosmic Pizza Chef My meditation teacher, Shinzen Young, uses the phrase “Cosmic Pizza Chef” from time to time in his talks....
Eileen Knott
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Somatic Time Travel and Your Emotional Body
IS THIS YOUR EMOTIONAL BODY? I was listening to a webinar with Luis Mojica (HolisticLifeNavigation.com) and he used the phrase “somatic...
Eileen Knott
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There's This Sensitive Side to Me But.....
When I was in art school in New York City back in my younger days, we had an assignment to create a self portrait. The professor went...
Eileen Knott
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Successful Resting
Beginning with the Mind In the Unified Mindfulness System of meditation one of the practice options is a “do nothing” technique. Which,...
Eileen Knott
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Trust and Betrayal
Violation of our trust can occur with small incidents over time when we are children like our fear being dismissed after a nightmare
Eileen Knott
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I Feel it in My Bones: Osteo and Emotions
She sat, hunched over, osteoporosis wielding its vengeance of misshapen fragility. Arthritis, osteoporosis, pain and fear keep this once...
Eileen Knott
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