Compassion leads to a life of power *with* others. Judgment leads to a hunger for power *over* others.

"You should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything..."

Courage does not always shout. Hope does not always flare. Sometimes it is a small brown mouse who sneaks out...

We all need support to be brave, less anxious, to lean a little bit more into love. So I continue to share these little pieces of hope...

What happens when someone tells you, "Don't think about that!" "That" being your current big problem or concern. It's like saying...

Here is the list of all the tools in all the toolkits so far. Or consider it an atlas of maps. Take what you like and leave the rest!

Hands are incredibly, marvelously, terribly important. We've all become hugely aware of that over the last few weeks...

This weeks tools? Admit your frustration. Swish your feet around. Talk funny. Hand to heart. Accept your humanity.

This toolkit is about slowing down...being kind to ourselves..relaxing... even having a little fun.

The most effective tools--all can either be done while doing something else or only take a few seconds.

I'm going to start with a confession this time. A couple of mornings ago...

A few more poems/songs that have been speaking to me in the midst of this strange new pandemic world we find ourselves in.

Here are a few more ways to dislodge that anxiety, melt it, shake it loose, or at least mute it down a little.

"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." William Carlos Williams

A new edition of the Anti-covidanxiety toolkit including your contributions, complete with cartoons.

Here's the toolkit I am using to stay sane, to move through and beyond what I am calling covidanxiety. You could call them seeds of sanity.

Such a relief to be with people who needed no explanation for the often massive feelings I was having. They got it. They were in it too.

Eeyore is almost always lugubrious, but also endearing. A caricature. Who among us never complains, never over-dramatizes their problems?

The word "with" was important to her precisely because she had a hard time feeling it. It was a reminder, a lodestar, a refuge.

You are not alone. You are amazing and wonderful, able to do so many remarkable things. You have handled awareness...