Writing & Nervous System Medicine: My Body, My Pen

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♥️ ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF how it FEELS to BE in YOUR LIFE?

Aug 15 • 

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March 2025

A Holograph of Grace

then, there; here, now (after Maya Stein’s “right here, right now” prompt)

Mar 23 • 

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February 2025

What if there is no timeline to our lessons? (after Maya Stein)

What if delight could be a resuscitation?

Feb 24 • 

Colleen Krystyniak

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“Please Resume Breathing”

After: “The world I cannot catch,” by Charlotte Matthews

Feb 17 • 

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Conditions for Thriving

Attention & Breath

Feb 14 • 

Colleen Krystyniak

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What “frantic creatures do”

& how we can keep each other warm

Feb 7 • 

Colleen Krystyniak

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Divining Poets~Oracle inspiration from Lucille Clifton

In honor of Black History Month, I’ve pulled a Quote for us from Tracy K. Smith’s “Divining Poets Clifton” Quotable Oracle Deck

Feb 3 • 

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Thank You Readers & Writers!

Art as the “Necessary Well” we drink from

Feb 2 • 

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August 2024

My 1st Hermit: “SCUBA Safety, Getting in to the Water”

aka: “Fully Submerged; How to Breathe: Safety for Mothers of ODPs”

Aug 16, 2024 • 

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“You were You, Colleen. You weren’t meant to be Me. Everybody has to be themselves.” (my Mama)

“A fish in its unmanaged elegance does Not long to be a tiger.” Mark Nepo (“Nor a Tiger, a fish.” Me)

Aug 12, 2024 • 

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June 2024

“Trust me, I don’t know what I’m doing” (after Maya Stein~linked below)

But poems & tea (or coffee) seem to help

Jun 20, 2024 • 

Colleen Krystyniak

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May 2024

The Art of trying Not to “live the whole thing at once”

Wisdom from Naomi Shihab Nye & a few pennies from me

May 15, 2024 • 

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