by nuramadjzoub@yahoo.com | May 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Equanimity (noun) – mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium. Presence. Striving to live in the moment and to ride the wave of whatever is arising. We are not our past. We can’t prepare ourself...
by nuramadjzoub@yahoo.com | Mar 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Recently I was observing my children, and watched how quickly they took the few hours of the day that had passed, and turned it into a no-good, awful day. It got me thinking: why do we think life should (or want it to) be all easy, fun and happy? And when it is not,...
by nuramadjzoub@yahoo.com | Feb 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is what January was like for me internally: I begin to understand that a strong sense of responsibility can take on the distortion of control when we assume more responsibility than is actually our own. It may just be time to become a little less responsible. And...
by nuramadjzoub@yahoo.com | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
I began writing this post as a stream of consciousness almost 2 weeks ago. Funny how I’ve sat with it since then. Then today, as I woke up to 2018 I thought about how many people use the new year to decide to make a fresh start, or to take action towards their...
by nuramadjzoub@yahoo.com | Nov 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
I woke up to read these words from a dear friend who is traversing the dark canyon of a loss of a loved one: “grief is just love with nowhere else to go”. Sometimes things just pop up in our lives in an insistent way. This past week it was grief. Many of us...