by rjacksonpaton | Jun 17, 2016 | en/gendering embodiment, readings, sex & love
this might be a longer post, but for now wanting to link at least two things: my earlier post, understanding confusion, when i mentioned the teaching about how do i live my life if i know that my cells have been in constant communication since i was two cells old....
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 17, 2016 | connections, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings
this story begins with Somatica® trainee-mate Charlie Glickman, who in their endless highly skilled generosity shared a book recommendation, Trauma is really strange. but as so often happens in my life-process, i didn’t get it right away. guess i wasn’t...
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 5, 2016 | connections, creativity, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings, writing
understanding confusion for Pan, Fenua, Jenny, Lisa & Amy, Shawn, Meredith, Sunanda, and probably others… with gratitude this story begins a few months back with brené brown (actually it begins much further back as the illustration shows!). she asked a question in...
by rjacksonpaton | Feb 10, 2016 | connections, dissertation, ethnoautobiography, readings, writing
lately there’s been (too) much in Democratic party circles of throwing around the word “establishment.” something came to me this morning that i’ve written about elsewhere (especially in my 2012 dissertation!) that might relate. in my...
by rjacksonpaton | Jan 16, 2016 | connections, creativity, en/gendering embodiment, readings
several strings are up for me at this moment, one of them being a currently underway Brené Brown online ‘course’, called CourageWorks. i was going to post a short bit about something that’s been up for me in the past month or so (and i haven’t...
by rjacksonpaton | Dec 7, 2015 | connections, creativity, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings, sex & love, writing
had a fabulous session the other day where i connected experiences relating to somatic body-mind centering teachings and gabor maté’s work around the harm associated with being dislocated. in my recent reverence ‘lost homes’ i came to terms with some...
