The MyPeacein50 Blog

Why belonging is the foundation of safety, trust, and sustainable caring

Belonging is one of those experiences that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. Most of us can remember a time wh...

Reclaiming imagination, curiosity, and lightness in a world that often asks us to grow up too quickly

Play has never come naturally to me. Even as a child, I often felt more like a little adult than ...

How tending living things can become a practice of presence, patience, and quiet repair

There is something about gardening that feels like prayer. Not the kind of prayer that requires particular word...

How the body learns safety through contact, presence, and gentle attention

When I worked at the Children’s Hospital, Healing Touch practitioners used to come to our All-Staff meetings. At first, I di...

What it means to build peace together, one nervous system at a time

So much of what we’ve talked about during this MyPeacein50 journey has been about how we can regulate our own nervous systems in ti...

How placing one foot in front of the other becomes a way back to yourself

Walking has become one of the most reliable ways I return to myself. Not power walking. Not walking to achieve a certain numb...

What it means to grow—not because of what happened, but because of how we carry it forward

There’s a phrase I was introduced to years ago, both professionally and personally, that I’ve come back to a...

When “just so” becomes too much—and how to loosen its grip

Recently, I spent some time with my aunt, and she told a story about me that I’ve heard before—but this time, it landed differently.

I was ...

What it means to thaw the nervous system—and reclaim motion when your body goes still

There’s a moment that happens to me in acute crisis that I don’t talk about often. From the outside, it looks lik...

I have a confession to make. There’s a part of me that many of you might not know. When I was a child, I was really sensitive.

Not in the quiet, hidden way that sometimes gets romanticized, but in th...

When I first heard the phrase self-holding, I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of it. And when I was first invited to try it, during a guided meditation where I was asked to give myself a hug, I was,...

In a previous blog, Hold Your North: Tuning Into Purpose in a Loud, Divided World, I wrote about purpose as an orienting force—a kind of inner compass that helps us navigate uncertainty without being ...