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You Are Worth the Inner Fight
It’s my job to love you and to hold you as you discover you are worth every teardrop and every fearful
Thought. You deserve the best.

Shirley Riga
Sep 8, 20205 min read
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Weaving Our Way Through Life
My meditative practice is in my recipe for survival through these tumultuous times.

Shirley Riga
Sep 7, 20206 min read
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The Valley of Detachment
Whenever I am asked to do something when I would rather be doing something else, I think of the dog keeper.
Thea Iberall
Sep 6, 20205 min read
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Old Stories New Beginnings
I am not my story. Sometimes grief consumes me and my day is encumbered with sadness. I remember my tools to help me move through my grief.

Shirley Riga
Sep 5, 20205 min read
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Finding a New Perspective
A change in perspective
Is refreshing as it’s so easy to get caught up
In the humdrum of life.

Shirley Riga
Sep 4, 20204 min read
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My Journal is the Meeting Room
I started a conversation yesterday with forgotten friends, long ago acquaintances I lost touch with, the younger me...

Shirley Riga
Sep 3, 20205 min read
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I Didn’t Know What to Expect
Safety always comes first, and in any transition, my safety is threatened no matter where I am. My body feels it first with stomach pain...

Shirley Riga
Sep 2, 20204 min read
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Training with Kindness
My old self would feel lost
amid the rocky goings-on
with fingers pointing at me
if something went wrong.

Shirley Riga
Sep 1, 20204 min read
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Naming Things
I can feel the fingers of expectation pressing on my shoulders, I can hear the lists of to do’s being read out loud slowly

Shirley Riga
Aug 31, 20205 min read
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Gifts of Hindsight
All these teachers in my life
gifted me with insights,
opened my heart, taught me compassion and self-respect

Shirley Riga
Aug 30, 20205 min read
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Best moments
I have been writing my own book of rules. Not my parents, not my teachers
Not my bosses or opiners.
My rules – my moments.

Shirley Riga
Aug 29, 20205 min read
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Namaste
Sometimes I go down a rabbit hole of despair
Losing my way into critical thoughts, and pointing fingers and oh poor me. Namaste I say to...

Shirley Riga
Aug 28, 20204 min read
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Our Stories
We all have stories. They define where we’ve been, who we are and where we’re going. True healing happens when our stories are heard.

Shirley Riga
Aug 27, 20205 min read
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My Anger Fuel
When anger is ignored, it’s a fuel that burns uncontrolled. Being creative helps me use my anger fuel.

Shirley Riga
Aug 26, 20205 min read
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A Meditation on Rocks
The sound they say was louder than anything ever heard except perhaps for the cry of the sailors, returning to find, instead of their homes,
Thea Iberall
Aug 25, 20206 min read
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Steadiness vs Resistance
I am my own remedy if I slow down to listen.
My breath steadies my path of life.

Shirley Riga
Aug 24, 20204 min read
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We Are More
Opening my mind to the idea that my energy body is as real as my physical body allows me so much more understanding of my life experiences.

Shirley Riga
Aug 23, 20205 min read
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Rock Foundations
I squashed my dreams and complied. I compromised and veered towards the path of least resistance. Wishing I would fight back.

Shirley Riga
Aug 22, 20205 min read
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When Anger Arises
At first, my anger was messy. I wore it smeared in my sneers. Over the years, I found comfort with my anger knowing it is a fuel.

Shirley Riga
Aug 21, 20206 min read
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My Authentic Voice
I never did figure out how to pray like a proper follower of the religion I was brought up in. I had to stop emulating everyone else's ideas

Shirley Riga
Aug 20, 20205 min read
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