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Sep 15Liked by Adreanna Limbach

Dear Adreanna, your insights about our bodies strikes a real cord with me because I can apply it to aging so completely. Whether it is an adjustment to needing hearing devices or waking up with stiff joints, not to mention the urge to take a late afternoon nap, my body is indeed "a most familiar place and completely foreign to me" in my seventies. Yoga helps as does meditation but it is a never ending boomer battle. Many many thanks for your poignant and always wise thoughts.

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Celia— Yes! I relate completely. As much as I feel like I’ve got my body “mapped” and I know all of its quirks, it continues to change both incrementally and also in seismic shifts (next up: menopause!). What a wonderful (humbling) teacher of impermanence and clinging these bodies are. 🌺

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Sep 16Liked by Adreanna Limbach

Protection as armor vs. protection as shelter. I'm going to be meditating on this all week now. And wow, I'd never seen the Gondry music video linked here, but it's beautiful too. Thankful for all of it.

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Ryan — I’m glad this one gave you something chewy to nosh on. And isn’t the Gondry video beautiful? Apparently all shot in one take, in a 5 story building tipped on its side. It makes me want to revisit all of his work. 🌺

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Sep 16Liked by Adreanna Limbach

Love this so much. It's a life-long journey for me, this inhabiting my changing body! ❤️

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Jennifer — I couldn’t agree more: a lifelong journey to be in a body that shifts incrementally and then sometimes all at once.

Maybe even lifetimes-long? Can you imagine how jarring it must be to reincarnate as a frog? Or a duck? A whole new body to learn how to inhabit. Fun to entertain! 🌺

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Sep 20Liked by Adreanna Limbach

So true!

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Sep 15Liked by Adreanna Limbach

I loved this SO much that I had to listen to your calming voice and your reflections a 2nd time right after I listened the first time. I am so happy when I see your edition of THE LAUNDRY in my e-mail box. At last.........something I actually want to read or listen to.

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Victoria— How awesome that in this very noisy internet (that feels to me a little like whispering into the void) there’s something in The Laundry that you connect with. I’m so so glad it’s useful. And I’m so so glad that you’re here. 🌺

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Sep 15Liked by Adreanna Limbach

I will never *not* listen to the audio version now. Your soothing pronunciations, in particual clavicle, are not to be missed.

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Clavicle. Clavicle. Clavicle. 🌺☺️

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Sep 13Liked by Adreanna Limbach

It really is all about repeatedly learning to be in these vessels. 😮‍💨 Thank you for this bit of wisdom writing. ☺️

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Right?! Just a lifelong game of call and response and (for me at least) a lifelong practice of listening for subtle non-verbal feedback. What a ride. 🌺

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Sep 13Liked by Adreanna Limbach

So good - in our culture there is so much disconnection from what our bodies actually need to feel whole.

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YES. It’s such an ongoing exploration. Just when I think I’ve got a good understanding of what my body needs, my body changes. Never static. Like any relationship, I suppose. 🌺

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