Anniversary of the Accident

A year ago, today, I was hit by a speeding skateboarder. The concussion that followed resulted in a subdural hematoma and surgery October 1, 2015. I’m alive, I’m well, I’m different and I am the same. I have cocooned and reformed. Quiet, patient, enduring, curious, relieved and grateful. Ten days ago, I was plucking fuzzy […]

Vertigo

Last week vertigo came back.  I had ten days of vertigo once I got home from the hospital in October. Good news is it’s now gone and I feel even stronger and freer this week. Here is some of what I’ve done to ease the dizziness and nausea. First thing I pay attention to is keeping […]

Breathe to Heal

  The more I have researched ways to recover from trauma, surgery, and anesthesia the more I have come to appreciate my long term training and practice of breathing. From the first moment that I began to wake up from surgery I began to breathe with conscious direction.  For years I have used conscious breathing […]

Healing with Energy Work

Reorganizing and unifying of my body and mind is now coming through my work with several energy healers. I am more and more myself and feeling clearer and strong (with added insights about doing less etc.)  On Saturday Nov 7 Renee Jackson stayed overnight and did three sessions in the pathways to healing nervous system […]

My Cosmos

Thank you, thank you, Thank you! Each of you who have responded to me have woven a cosmic net of healing around me.  You have proved to me the bond of love and recognition that I have hoped is there in my cosmos.  Your words buoy me, encourage me and recognize me…as I recognize you. […]

Letting Go, Slowing Down, and Loving Life – A Visit From Friends

On Wednesday I received an immeasurable gift of healing: Sarah Beaman Jones and Diana Zeigler-Hayden arrived at my front door from St. Louis.  Deeply loved friends, like family who I have known for more than 40 years (SBJ) and 30 years (DZH), they had come to make sure I was okay and to help me […]

Healing, Patience, and Gratitude

I’m 20 days out from a craniotomy that has turned my life in a new direction. A young man on a skateboard plowed me down on a sidewalk but it took 12 days for the internal bleeding to show up.  Modern medicine, a great surgeon and super nurses have pulled me through.  Now I hurry […]