I decided to quit smoking 64 days ago. I’d tried before – lots of times before, but it was TIME. I had this idea that I would quit smoking, start exercising, and really focus on getting healthy this year. I started this program, #WellCynova, using the tarot to help motivate me to take better care …
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“This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.” ― Veronica Roth
When I was a kid, I didn’t think about my body. I ran around fields in central Kansas, my uncle’s junkyard, my grandpa’s farm. I climbed trees, crashed bicycles. When I was in my teens and twenties, I didn’t think about my body. I drank and smoked and ate whatever I wanted and flung my …
“No station in life is above another if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart” – OS Card
The Cups suit in the tarot is about emotion. How it flows through us, how it can drown us if we’re overwhelmed. How we can’t breathe when the waters get so high that they cover our mouth and nose. Our electrical system of a brain shorts out when the emotional waters get too high and …
Day 15 – Is the 10 of Swords a relief? #WellCynova
It should be easy to focus on personal wellbeing when the world around you is on fire, but honestly, it seems like the least important thing. This is problematic. I think it’s a result of lots of things rolling together for me. I don’t think I’ll be able to focus again until the inauguration is …
“If your name isn’t known, it’s a very lonely feeling” Madeline L’Engle
When I’m stressed, I re-read old favorites. My audible library is filled with them. Terry Pratchett, Patrick Rothfuss, Jim Butcher, Maggie Stiefvater. The two that I picked this week were Madeline L’engle and Orson Scott Card. (Yes, I know card is a hyper religious wackadoo, but he has solid fiction) In The Wind in the …