https://youtu.be/v-YJfAbXKzc Since the time of my earliest memories, I was drawn to Native Americans. As a child, I would sit for hours and look at books with photographs of Native people and their ritual practices. At the age of fourteen, when I began to learn about traditional Native doctors (medicine men and women), I decided that, if ever given [...]
https://youtu.be/ckyZts38a6c Relational dynamics vary widely across cultures — something I’ve witnessed firsthand after living for years among Native Americans and spending significant time in China, India, Sri Lanka, and beyond. Everywhere you go, relationships carry a mix of positive attributes and dysfunction. Some nurture closeness and stability, while others create confusion and pain. Here in the United States, I [...]
https://youtu.be/d6CPuYiXCc4 For seventeen years, I trained with Shifu Li Tai Liang in Xin Yi Quan, Baguazhang, Tai Chi, and Chi Gong—internal martial arts rooted in Taoist lineages that go back thousands of years. I first began attending Shifu's classes in the Corona section of Queens. But I quickly realized that the depth and complexity of what he was teaching [...]
https://youtu.be/joMCJ-9v16E Grief is an inevitable part of being human. It’s the raw, unfiltered response to loss—of a loved one, a relationship, a dream, a sense of identity, or even a vision of how we thought life would unfold. In its natural form, grief is a powerful emotion meant to move through us. But when that grief is denied, suppressed, [...]
https://youtu.be/Q6HnS4wITV0 In the midst of a devastating breakup—when someone ghosts us, pulls away, or triggers our deepest attachment wounds—many of us get hit with a tidal wave of pain we don’t know how to handle. And our first impulse is often to escape it. We reach for whatever numbs us: food, alcohol, weed, other drugs, casual sex, binge-watching, or [...]
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