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“On the fox, and on the professional habit of deciding something is not worth having before you have properly tried to reach it.” – Somatic Clarity You know the fable. The fox sees grapes hanging high on a vine. He tries to reach them, fails, and walks away declaring that they were probably sour

Here is a difference between releasing what weighs you down and abandoning what makes you who you are. In the first piece of this series, I wrote about the difference between relief and clarity — how the feeling of letting go can be real and good, while still being something other than wisdom. I

There is a particular feeling that comes when you get rid of something. A bag of clothes you no longer wear, a shelf of books you will never read again, the furniture that made the room feel smaller than it was. The space that follows is almost physical — a loosening, a breath. It