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Contemplative Practices for Setting Intentions and Welcoming the New Year

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee December 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

This image reads “What is currently giving me energy—firing me up or inspiring me? and other questions for the new year …” against a light blue-gray background. A cream-colored candle and flame appear with pink-peach glowing dots. Attribution to Heart-Head-Hands.com appears in the lower right-hand corner.

As we approach the new year (saying goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021), I recognize that this year especially is calling for intentional reflection, ritual, and recommitment—ways to mark the passage of time and to honor longings for change. Over the past weeks, I’ve received multiple questions for the Patreon Q&A newsletter asking for meditations and resources to set resolutions and goals for the new year. In this blog post, I answer by offering contemplative ... Read more ...

7 Strategies for Soothing Aches and Pains During the Pandemic

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices By Beth Godbee April 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

This image shows the Word document "Parenting Myself Right Now ... Spring 2020" that can be downloaded and modified for use. This black-and-white checklist shows characteristics of self-parenting next to days of the weeks, where checks can be added for tracking daily behaviors.

It’s been weeks since I’ve had acupuncture, and old aches and pains are now resurfacing during the pandemic. In this week’s session of “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands,” I realized I wasn’t alone in having these sensations. Our conversation turned to shared back pains and how we’re supporting our bodies while staying at home and missing bodywork. Because many of us are dealing with similar questions of how to soothe aches and pains, I’m sharing what’s ... Read more ...

Blessed Change

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies By Beth Godbee September 28, 2018 1 Comment

This card from Doreen Virtue’s “Magical Mermaids and Dolphins” oracle deck says “Blessed Change” in large letters at the top. An image appears below these letters and in the card’s center showing a mermaid floating upside down among seaweed, coral, and shells. At the card’s bottom appears the message: “A major life change brings you great blessings.”

What does it mean to turn our lives upside down? How might looking at the world differently inspire new perspectives? What new perspectives are needed to enact more equitable relations? In recent weeks, I’ve been pulling this “Blessed Change” card whenever using Doreen Virtue’s “Marginal Mermaids and Dolphins” oracle deck as part of everyday divination, a meditation practice for grounding and interpreting lived experience. I started pulling divination or oracle ... Read more ...

Triangulating the Heart, Head, and Hands for Justice

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Higher Education By Beth Godbee March 17, 2018 Leave a Comment

This spring I’m teaching a new course titled “Contemplative Writing.” I’ve visualized the course design through triangulation, or three intersecting points that rely on the others for fuller understanding. Like a compass, triangulation helps with navigating complicated terrain. It shows locations (or ideas) in relation to each other, highlighting multiplicity. In the case of “Contemplative Writing,” triangulation brings together three semester-long focuses, audiences, ... Read more ...

Snapshots of Support

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies By Beth Godbee March 10, 2018 Leave a Comment

My practice space: yoga mats, blocks, and foam roller.

This week I’ve felt stretched thin—waking up earlier and heading to bed later than I’d like. One moment, I’m reviewing students’ midterm portfolios. The next, I’m scripting a hard conversation. While attending to microaggressions and facilitating tricky online and in-person conversations, I’m also sharing hopeful-yet-emotional announcements with family, friends, colleagues, and students. In the midst of such frenzied and frenetic activity, I’ve been finding support ... Read more ...

My Journey with Back Pain

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies By Beth Godbee February 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Back pain. It’s a friend who’s accompanied me through most of my life, beginning in my early teens and really intensifying during graduate school when I had an “emergency surgery” after losing muscular control of my right foot. In 2006, when I had this surgery, I experienced intense pain: burning sensations that radiated from my low back down my right leg and into the toes that I couldn’t lift. It was a scary experience. The last decade has taken me on an unexpected ... Read more ...

Expect Miracles

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee December 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

Of the many lessons I’m still learning, an important one is to trust life as it unfolds. I struggle with trust because I struggle with letting go of perfectionism and perceived control. Despite these struggles, whenever I soften attachments to my preferred timing and open instead to possibilities, miracles occur. And the more I open to miracles, the more I find HOPE, which is so greatly needed on the long haul toward justice. Recently, I’ve had an important reminder to ... Read more ...

40 Days of Yoga Nidra

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices By Beth Godbee November 18, 2017 Leave a Comment

A year ago, when launching this blog, I wrote about welcoming winter by looking within—resolving “to tune into how I’m feeling, what I’m thinking, and what I can do,” resolving “to be true to my truths, my commitments, and my joys.” These resolutions have accompanied me through the year and are now re-energizing the desire for introspective hibernation. As luck (or divine intervention) would have it, Marty Tribble (my Reiki teacher) is offering a community practice of ... Read more ...

Gentle Yoga for Releasing Burdens

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices By Beth Godbee October 11, 2017 Leave a Comment

Screen capture of YouTube video "Gentle Yoga for Stiff Neck & Tight Shoulders," showing the creator Kris in a seated position with her neck to the side.

I’ve recently noticed how much tension I’m holding in my neck and shoulders. It feels as though I’ve been burdening myself with the weight of the world and carrying this extra weight in/on my body. The burden shows up in rounded shoulders—the physical manifestation of shrinking—rather than standing TALL with upright posture so that I can courageously be seen and take up space. To change this pattern, I’ve been using this simple and slow yoga ... Read more ...

Mantras to Stand TALL for Justice

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Higher Education, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee September 4, 2017 Leave a Comment

This week I returned to teaching First-Year English (FYE), a course focused on information literacy, academic writing, undergraduate research, and the first-year college experience. This course helps students in making the transition to college, asking research questions, and navigating academic disciplines and the larger university system. The goal is for students to see themselves as critical readers, writers, and researchers—agents with response-abilities to make ... Read more ...

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TW: Police Brutality, Gun Violence, Murder

Daunte Wright, a Black man and father, was only 20 years-old when a Minnesota cop pulled him over, fired shots and killed him. Being Black is a death sentence in America. The cops are not on our side, and they are not here to protect us.

They are an extension of the evil forces of white supremacy that continues to prevail today, and they cannot be reformed. You cannot reform a system working precisely as it was designed.

We don’t need police. We need accessible education. We need community love and leaders. We need more gardens and parks and we need more tenderness and care, and we need humanity.

Just 10 miles away, Derek Chauvin is standing trial for the murder of George Floyd. We always say never again, but here we are, again. End the system. End the cyclical and generational pain. Abolish the police. Black Lives Matter.

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Thanks @xcharlesiax for sharing your research and Thanks @xcharlesiax for sharing your research and holding space for this important work. Exciting!!!

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This Friday, from 12-1 (CST), I’m leading a workshop on developing pleasure literacy and you are invited to join us! You don’t have to know or prepare anything in advance -- just show up with a willingness to write and introspectively reflect on your relationships with pleasure. I don’t think it will be recorded but I will be hosting more workshops in the future. 

You can register here(also linked in my bio): https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApdu-trzsvH9Nq3wufSD9FAeDNn6zWdgeJ

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This workshop series with @zeenajane sounds SO goo This workshop series with @zeenajane sounds SO good!!! And I highly recommend Zeena! 💜

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One of the frequent topics of conversation in my grief care coaching has been “stuff.” Whether my clients are wading through the possessions of departed loved ones, or considering their own items in the wake of grief or transition, our material belongings can be emotionally charged. It’s so often more than just “stuff,” it is our sacred stories. I’ve been working on ways to preserve our precious memories while allowing us the opportunity to intentionally let go of any items that leave us drained, stressed, and overwhelmed. If you’d like to learn more, please join me for a special series of free workshops beginning Wednesday, April 14th at 5:30 PM (EST). We will discuss a process of reflection, ritual, and remembrance that can help us make peace with the sentimental items in our closets, basements, and attics while making a plan to give them a new life. I want to learn from you, while I share what I have learned! I can’t wait to see you. Registration link is in bio.
I’m six weeks into an elimination diet, feeling I’m six weeks into an elimination diet, feeling somewhat better, but still have a lot to learn and unlearn and to change about my relationship with food. In the midst of many shifts and still very much in the midst of the pandemic, I’m grateful for reliably yummy and simple foods like vegan and gluten-free tempeh sticks: https://heart-head-hands.com/tempeh-sticks/ —> Link in bio.

In this new blog post, I share the recipe that’s part of my current approach to self-parenting. Let me know if you try it. :-)
 
[Image shows tempeh sticks cover open-faced sandwiches of mashed avocado, sour kraut, and microgreens on ciabatta buns.]

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may we welcome transformation
in ourselves
in each other
in the world around us
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as spring teaches us to do

as the earth once again gifts us bright colors and the warmth of the sun

as the slow-developing periodical cicadas emerge after their 17 year slumber, reminding us that change is sometimes slow and uneven
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may we remember that there is no place of arriving, no knowing it all, no having perfect ideas or perfect ways to navigate this current moment

no perfect concepts about the complicated interplay of inequalities and centuries-in-the-making capitalist exploitation, white supremacist racism, and misogyny
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we are at so many points of transformation right now

as we are asked to confront the realities of suffering and inequalities that surround us 
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may we be diligent in re-committing to justice
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in looking inward for how our actions may uphold oppression and be in need of shifting
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may we be gracious to each other as we learn and change
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and be deliberately fierce in how we strive to always transform toward justice
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I'm an educator and former college professor who believes our fully embodied selves matter in the world. We can’t just think our way out of the incredible injustices, dehumanization, violence, and wrongdoing that characterize everyday life. We must feel and act, too. [Pronouns: she/her.] Read more ...

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