Author: katiekaufmann

Hey Reader! Today is Day of the Dead. So thinking about our own mortality is not too far of a stretch at this moment, right? In her book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware, a palliative care nurse, interviewed dozens of people at the end of life about what they most regretted. This was the #1 answer: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. If you were to suddenly find yourself with very little time left, where might you be...

Hey Reader! Are you hard on yourself? Do you pressure yourself to succeed and beat yourself up for any perceived shortcomings, signs of weakness, or vulnerability? How's that working out for you? We often get into the habit of berating ourselves out of a genuine desire to motivate ourselves to do...

Hey Reader! This past week I lost my wallet. Well, more of a pouch from some old sunglasses that held all my credit cards. I was at a concert at the Minnesota State Fair with about 17,000 other people and it must have fallen out of my fanny pack one of the dozen times I took out my phone to snap...

Hey Reader! When I was in theater school, I had a corporeal mime teacher who stressed the importance of practice in a way that really sunk in and I have repeated to many others in the past couple decades. When we start doing an action that we want to improve at or that is supposed to eventually...

Hey Reader! Have you ever looked back at your formal self and cringed or noticed all the things that lead you down a certain path? Have you ever wanted to scoop that younger self up in your arms and guide them towards more skillful ways of seeing themselves in the world? Boogie NIghts had just...

Hey Reader! Happy June! I am late in sending this out because I couldn't pick a subject for this newsletter. There are too many things I want to talk about and share and that was keeping me stuck in a state of overwhelm. Does that feel familiar? I then realized that overwhelm was probably the...

Decem-brrrrr is upon us Reader! When it gets cold it's time to go inside! Yes. I mean indoors, but I also mean inside your body. We spend so much time distracting from, running from, and pushing away from our own somatic and emotional experience. When it gets cold and dark, we have the ability to...

Happy NO-vember Reader! This month I invite you to join me in the practice of saying NO more often. Saying no to: Things we feel obligated to do, but give us little in return but resentment Coping mechanisms and other habits that do serve us Taking on extra work Swooping in and fixing things...