I just spent more than a week at the Oregon coast, a place I usually feel instantly at home. Being on the ocean simply returns me to source. It’s a short cut for me.
So when I decided to go there to get started on a book I’ve been wanting to write, I expected a vacation. It was a vacation, all right. I vacated my body and moved right into my head. The mental work of framing my ideas and beginning such a large project had me set up housekeeping in the world of the mind, which happens to be what I was writing about. I got a good start on the book, but I’ve had a series of headaches from the mental strain. Not an accident, I think.
What’s just as difficult is that during the frustration and challenges of living in my head, I returned to my old ways of compulsive eating. Only this time, after having retreated with Geneen Roth last spring, it’s harder to stay in denial. Which makes the whole thing much more painful.
At the same time, I’m preparing to co-lead a workshop on mindfulness in eating and movement. It’s only a month away now, and the Simon Legree that lives in my head says it’s time to get my stuff together.
But…my heart says to simply return home. To my body. Body knows. And when I remember that….and stay in my body, in the experience of eating, being, writing, I’m home.
One finishes feeling integrated and loved, with definite goals to work toward.
Absolutely I would recommend this course to another coach. I’ve read all of Katie’s books, listened to her audio books and recordings, and yet, during this course I discovered completely new facets to The Work.
Susan teaches with a rare combination of humor and wisdom that makes you feel lighter immediately – lighter for having discovered some truths to help you on your way forward and lighter in the sense of realizing that you don’t have to take everything so damn seriously.
