Yesterday, during #MondayBlogs, I was reading a post by Colleen Story on Forest Bathing. I had never heard the term before, but loved the immersion it called to mind. I live in an odd spot for forest bathing. When I hike or walk or run, towering palm trees are casting their slender shadows before my … Continue reading A Forest in the Desert
Fitness
Tattoo
Each year leaves marks indelible aging a pure art as shape transforms until we wear the badges of every smile decorating our skin our faces with the tattoos left upon us by time and a life lived in full - Caroline A. Slee
Cryotherapy!
Last week, I mentioned that I would be sharing another item off our health and wellness bucket list. If you missed the post on Float Therapy, you can find it here After our try with floating, I signed the Tumor Raider and I up for Cryotherapy. For those of you who haven't heard of this … Continue reading Cryotherapy!
Descent ~ #MondayBlogs
Blood pooling spreads heavy in itself weighing down the limbs Sound vanishes and sight narrows to a dark horizon where dawn will shatter the mountain tops the moon casts its strange desert spell as the hills wind ever upward and I fight forward always set to outrun myself pushing for my anonymous win - Caroline … Continue reading Descent ~ #MondayBlogs
Float Therapy!
The Tumour Raider and I had an opportunity to try float therapy (also called flotation therapy, sensory deprivation therapy). I figured I should share the experience and benefits here, for those who might be interested. The word "surreal" comes to mind when I try to find the best descriptor. 🙂 Float therapy involves a high … Continue reading Float Therapy!
Imaginary Roads
The rhythmic hum accompanies my stride a strange beat box of summer music My mind wanders roads and trails while the fan spins and shushes the air My heart races through wind and storms while sun relentlessly burns I travel on a nowhere loop imagining the journey outdoors - Caroline A. Slee
Water Therapy
We rest suspended in another world a realm where we become Transformation We live as magical beings - star-clad and cradled - remembering our destiny Drawing strength from our forgotten selves the miraculous creations forged in ocean's currents Listening once more to the song of unseen depths - Caroline A. Slee
Learning to Love Again…#wwwblogs
That title is a "gotcha." If you're here for romance, run for it! 🙂 I have spent the last almost 6 years learning to love my body again. I grew up with all of the same pressures as every young woman in North America: the focus on appearance over substance, the messages that told us … Continue reading Learning to Love Again…#wwwblogs
Salvation…#wwwblogs
I ran beneath the bright moon as the sun rose Rippled clouds above carried grays and wishes for rain As my blood fueled my legs forward, forward It was every run and a first, all its own It was all the nights in college running darkened streets catching cobwebs on my hair avoiding possums My … Continue reading Salvation…#wwwblogs
Below…#wwwblogs
The world lifts away As my gaze turns Cerulean Sunlight ripples Filtered Liquid pressure Transforming my skin Returning me To a home Buried in memory Filled with sounds That elevate me Heating muscles Against impossible Cool tides Only joy And breath exist here And bring out A secret smile From the child I was