by Dalinda Reese | Sep 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Grieving allows us to touch what is real. We are not allowed to grieve. We are especially not allowed to grieve losses that others don’t see or that are not allowed by society. Our grief is “disenfranchised”. The ongoing and normalized turmoil of the last several...
by Dalinda Reese | Mar 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fear is a powerful emotion! Rightly so! It is intrinsically linked to our basic survival instinct. In nanoseconds (far faster than we can think about anything), fear can catapult our nervous systems into a full blown “fight, flight, freeze, or all-out faint”...
by Dalinda Reese | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
(January 25, 2022 — A reflection on well-being within the ongoing challenges of our times.) We have forgotten. We once seemed to know the importance of social determinants of health (food security, shelter security, loving human connections and community, access...
by Dalinda Reese | May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
(Written May 2020, this is a reflection several months into the by-now-global covid-19 crisis.) A clerical error twelve years ago included me in an email invitation to join a two year Lev Shomea (Heart Listening) spiritual direction training program…. The timing was...
by Dalinda Reese | Feb 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
(Written in February 2020, this is a reflection during the initial phases of the evolving covid-19 situation.) This pandemic is not the first, nor is it likely the last, to threaten the survival of the human species. Throughout history, humanity has faced natural...
