08/28/2026
What a week to be a human being.
It feels like so much light went out at once. We lost Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, two people who brought so much creativity into this world, while also witnessing unimaginable devastation and loss in Nepal and Tibet.
And we watched it all through these little devices in our hands.
I keep thinking about what that does to a nervous system. We weren't designed to witness the grief of the entire world before breakfast, absorb everyone's fear, anger and opinions, then put the phone down and carry on as though our bodies didn't just take all of that in.
For me, this eclipse season has felt particularly potent. Eclipses symbolically bring us into shadow for a moment. The light goes out. Things change. Eventually, the light returns.
And I keep coming back to one question:
How do we stay human inside of it all?
How do we remain grounded enough to help each other? Keep our hearts open without becoming depleted? Stay in our agency instead of disappearing into fear, outrage or numbness?
We come back into relationship.
With our bodies. With the land beneath our feet. With our breath. With our families, neighbors and communities. With the people sitting across from us instead of only the people behind our screens.
We take care of ourselves not because the world revolves around us, but because the world needs regulated, capable, loving humans in it.
This is part of why nervous system work has become so important to me. It doesn't make hard things disappear. It gives us greater capacity to stay present when life gets loud. To feel grief without drowning in it. To rest when we're depleted. To find our feet again. To choose our response instead of living entirely in reaction.
The world will keep changing. We don't know what's coming next.
But we can tend to the ground beneath our feet. Take care of these bodies. Put the phone down. Check on our people. Grieve. Help. Stay soft without becoming powerless.
And keep choosing love, always in all ways.
Be gentle with yourself and each other, we are all in this together. 💙