“The demand avoidance means that I can neither rest nor do something that I want to do. And so I end up doing the things that I do not want to do.” Pathological Demand Avoidance,...

“Shame is a paradigm that distances us from our power. It’s a paradigm within ourselves that, when internalized, it keeps us from recognizing our own experience in a variety of ways, and also recognizing our...

“…and this is the important part for us as intensives. As soon as we figure out what’s happening, we can begin to prepare mentally and sometimes systemically and sometimes structurally, for whatever comes next. And...

“This is where we shift from critical to curious. Isn’t it worth asking the question, what would drive a kid to lose control that way? It’s so easy to be critical. But you’re gonna get...

“This is one of the times of year where we all have to be exquisitely careful of our own inspiration.” Here in the late hours of the year, it can be tempting to dismantle, to...

“When we want to do this sacred work of uprooting injustice and inequity where we’re seeing it, we’re not just doing it for us. We’re holding a space for change to be different.” Meet Anuradha...

“I do not dream of labor. But I do dream of my mere existence being beautiful and interesting enough for a small child to stare and wonder for hours.” Let’s think about how our work...

“This is your reminder to remove one barrier. This is your reminder to find the thing that you already did. This is your reminder to love on yourself in a little tiny ways….” Thoughts on...

“It’s not that I don’t want the art that my body can make. It’s just that sometimes it’s been too hard to get there.” On asking our bones and muscles what they need, and pausing...

“You’re quicker than you think, you’re faster than you think. We’re intensives. When we really do get focused, we really do move fast….” Finding that focus sometimes depends on choosing a single, solvable problem, one...