The Art of Self-Expression: Igniting Personal Growth Through Effective Communication
Personal Growth Through Effective Communication In our journey of personal growth, we often prioritize goals such as exercising more,...
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Eileen Knott
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Kintsugi: Metaphor for Healing and Resilience
What is Kintsugi? Kintsugi, which translates as "golden joinery," is rooted in the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which embraces...
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
WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME? Your palms are sweating, your heart is racing, your trembling…Its happening again, and you don’t know why… where...
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
My meditation teacher, Shinzen Young, uses the phrase “Cosmic Pizza Chef” from time to time in his talks. It’s such a perfect image to...
Eileen Knott
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Somatic Time Travel
IS THIS YOU? I was listening to a webinar with Luis Mojica (HolisticLifeNavigation.com) and he used the phrase “somatic time travel,”...
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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Do You Dominate Your Body?
Do You Dominate Your Body? We all know a narcissist, someone who thinks the world revolves around them. They are consumed in admiration...
Eileen Knott
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Screwing Yourself Out of the Happiness You Deserve
“That’s what wine is for!!,” she fumed as she stormed out the door of her parents house. Her heart full of rage, anger, hurt and pain....
Eileen Knott
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Is Your Laundry a Threat?
Your down to your last pair of undies. It’s inevitable. You HAVE TO do the laundry! Of course the volume is overwhelming. But what is...
Eileen Knott
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Menopause and Meditation
Menopause… a fragile ecosystem of change and vulnerability. A hint of imbalance sends ripples of unwellness like seismic rings...
Eileen Knott
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Time and Attention
When you spend more time with something, you start to notice more, details, nuances, subtleties that you just weren’t aware of before....
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