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Will You Be Your Valentine? Gifts for Cultivating Self-Love
Will You Be Your Valentine? Gifts for Cultivating Self-Love posted by Martha Krausz/ February 14, 2023 When I was in college studying Virginia Woolf among the Jersey-cowed fields of rural Massachusetts, my mother would send me boxes of See’s Candy. In February,...
Education is Choice
Education is ChoiceIn honor of denise brown (shown here with my daughter Carmen in 2001) It was thirteen years ago today that I, and hundreds of other grieving people, attended the memorial service for Berkeley’s beloved educator and school administrator denise brown...
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Kindness, and Facing Climate Change
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Kindness, and Facing Climate Changeposted by Elizabeth Scott / January 16, 2020Elizabeth, Elizabeth's mom Lynn, Connie's mom Andrea, ConnieJoanna Macy (1), my first Buddhist teacher, has been on the front lines of environmental activism for...
The Circle of Life: Impossible to Complete Without a Body
The Circle of Life: Impossible to Complete Without a Bodyposted by Connie Sobczak / November 29, 2019 Breaking news… Human bodies change throughout the lifespan—and this is supposed to happen! It’s difficult to remember such a simple fact when we’re bombarded with...
Mistakes… What to do when you make one
Mistakes... What to do when you make oneposted by Connie Sobczak / November 14, 2019 Mistakes…it hurts to make them, yes it does! Wouldn’t it be lovely to always get things right? Well, actually, no. I have learned so many incredible lessons from making mistakes,...
Discovering Joyful Movement with Nia Dance
Discovering Joyful Movement with Nia Danceposted by The Body Positive / May 22, 2019 I walked in late to the Jewish Community Center’s (JCC) basketball court, which was cut in half by a temporary sliding wall. The room was sparsely sprinkled with women aged 50+, in...
This International Women’s Day, Let Young Women Speak
This International Women's Day, Let Young Women Speakposted by Connie Sobczak / March 7, 2019 In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, I want to share the words of Athena Nair, a high school senior. I met Athena last fall when her school hired us to do a Be...
