I moved to Oakland, California in 2014 with the intention of staying there for a long while, but then took an unexpected detour in January 2019. Returning home from my first ISTA training, my energy shifted the moment I walked through the front door. It looked the same but no longer felt like home. At the same time, I felt…
Reflecting back upon my life, I had spent so much of it living in my head, replaying the past, worrying about the future, and rarely able to be completely present. I turned to various distractions to give myself a temporary reprieve from my thoughts, but at best I was substituting internal noise with external noise, and at worst I was numbing…
