June: Bodies

Posts this month tend trust around different aspects of our bodies.

Meditations

June Focus: Bodies An introduction to this month’s theme
I and my body are two This post explores the value of disentangling ourselves from identifying completely with our bodies.
Coming Home On the startle and wonder that can accompany coming home to ourselves.
Dropping the Disguise This post introduces a new page at Trust Tending devoted to letters that readers write to their bodies.
On Being Tall (and other body extremes) A reflection on my experience of being a tall woman, and the capacity we have to wonder whether the roles our bodies usher us into are really all we have available to us.
Short People This is a guest post by Pamela Hunt-Cloyd about the experience of being short.
Living Outside the Lines On learning to choose desire, rather than fear of shame, as motivation for what we do with our bodies.

Rituals

Rituals for coming home to your body This is a follow-up to this post about coming home, and offers practical suggestions of ways to connect more meaningfully with your body.
A ritual for growing trust alongside physical impossibilities Sometimes our dreams and wishes for our bodies absolutely can’t pan out. This ritual is designed to help put unfulfillable dreams about our bodies to rest and hold space for new dreams to arise.

Interviews

Insights on Depression In this interview 4 people answer the following question: As one who has suffered with and through depression, what words would you offer others suffering with it, too, and what advice would you offer those trying to love them well?

Songs

Everybody poops and pees Tom Hunter’s “Everybody Loses Teeth” accompanies this post about all of us having physical limitations that we’re pushed up against sometimes.
Living Outside the Lines Tom Hunter’s “The Lines on Your Face” accompanies this post about learning to choose desire, rather than fear of shame, as motivation for what we do with our bodies.

 

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