by Lisa Kohn | Jan 23, 2023 | Resilience
Last week was a tough week. I had a scare, or at least something that scared me, mostly because of lack of communication from my doctors. That threw me. My kid, who had been here taking such sweet care of me and spending so much scrumptious time with me, left to go...
by Lisa Kohn | Jan 2, 2023 | Resilience
Somehow that seems hard to believe right now, and yet my mind and soul are reaching for it and reaching for it to be true. It’s all okay. Nothing is wrong. Last year was a long year of a lot that felt wrong. Very wrong. That I wish hadn’t happened or hadn’t happened...
by Lisa Kohn | Dec 12, 2022 | Resilience
I’m getting a wee bit tired of writing this, but now is hard. Now is a lot. I have a bit more still to come, and now is already a lot. I might be tired of writing it, but I have to remember it. I have to remember that now is – and has been…and will be – a lot. And I...
by Lisa Kohn | Dec 5, 2022 | Resilience
Breathe through the tricky parts. That’s what my yoga instructor gave us the other day. Breathe through the tricky parts. Right now, I have a lot of tricky parts. I also downplay them. Just like I downplay the past, at times. I believe it is a common survivor survival...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 28, 2022 | Resilience
Somewhere in the last few weeks, as if there wasn’t enough going on with me, my body and brain remembered another layer to my trauma. I was in therapy. We were working through all the many emotions coursing through me these days – including my current sleep challenges...
by Lisa Kohn | Nov 14, 2022 | Resilience
We’ve learned to label emotions “good” and “bad” or “okay” and “not.” We’ve learned to push our feelings down and away, to plaster on a smiley face, to say “anyway” at the end of sentences (or paragraphs) where we’re being real but we think we’re being a downer. We’ve...