by Lisa Kohn | May 14, 2024 | Resilience
This morning the universe gifted me with an Instagram clip of Gabor Maté, quoting Winne the Pooh (one of my favorite philosophers!). “Play is so important, and joy is so important,” he shared. It feels like that’s all that really needs to be said. I’m staying with...
by Lisa Kohn | Apr 30, 2024 | Resilience
(TW – I write about molestation) It is so easy to downplay some or all of the trauma that happened to us. It’s common to not even really remember it and to disregard or doubt it when we do remember it. This is our body and being’s defense mechanism that kicks in,...
by Lisa Kohn | Apr 23, 2024 | Resilience
My heart hurts a little. I think it’s mostly because I’m tired. I still get weary at the end of the day, and whilst I am so looking forward to curling up on the couch with my heated-pillow/security blanket and watching a movie, I am pushing myself a wee bit to get...
by Lisa Kohn | Mar 18, 2024 | Resilience
I heard this from a ‘cancer-friend’ (someone with cancer or a cancer survivor whom you meet whilst you have cancer versus someone you knew before or after who also had cancer). It wasn’t hers, but she passed it on to me from her friend who had cancer. Who actually...
by Lisa Kohn | Feb 26, 2024 | Resilience
I am playing with my heart a lot. I’m practicing keeping my heart open, and open even more, as I’m also practicing learning when it’s time to shut it down a bit, to turn it more inward and to turn me more inward. I’m noticing what opens me up and what shuts me down....
by Lisa Kohn | Feb 12, 2024 | Resilience
One of my dearests, with whom I text every morning, and I have a somewhat common refrain to our morning texts. May you find ease, ease, ease, and more ease, we text each other. I’ve had some tough weeks for a number of reasons, and yes, the (healing) concussion hasn’t...
