Category Archives: ‘Body Mind Bella’ Blog

I’ve been writing my way through life since I first learned how to hold a pencil. I’ve nearly written it all — I’ve captured storybook fantasies in elementary school, responded to prompts for appraisal in middle school, reported in-depth articles, published my own poetry books, and slogged pages of research reports for my undergraduate education.Continue reading “Write Now: I Trust In Myself”

It took 2 years, 3 jobs, and nearly 6 months of muted anticipation (I’ve been waiting a long time to say this!), but I have some exciting news: I am going back to school. I graduated from Ohio University two years ago to date with a plan to continue my education in critical, feminist geographiesContinue reading “I’m going back to school”

I awoke one Monday morning after the first of the year with an excruciating pain in my right lower abdomen. The pain appearing on the first workday after the New Year, I thought I was just experiencing fatigue, jetlag, or the side effects of major dehydration after a magical, whirlwind tour of the southeastern partContinue reading “A Year of Cyst-Stemic Change”

There’s a lot of new things going on in my life, lately. New apartment furniture. New job. New work clothes. A (relatively) new companion in life. A new watch on my wrist. A new purse to carry all of my new credit cards (now that credit scores seem to matter…). New favorite places to eatContinue reading “Remember who you are”

I’ve spent the last 12 months living in or within 3 miles of my childhood home. After rocketing back from a summer in southern Arizona, Singapore and San Francisco — and a full, final semester at OU — I was finally ready for a change of pace from the hectic, travel-filled sprint my life hadContinue reading “Coming Back Home”

I knew in the first few minutes of the class that it wasn’t going to be to my liking. I noticed right away, its absence all but unnerving my supposed-to-be calm senses. There was no music. Breathe in through your nose, the instructor nudged his pupils in the stony silence. I did as he instructed,Continue reading “Take Root: Mindful movement in practice”