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Joy Reichart

Joy Reichart

Rock Bottom’s Secret Trap Door

My outer and inner reserves completely depleted, there was nothing to do but let this terrifying whirligig of dread do its thing.

May 16, 2021

Rock Bottom’s Secret Trap Door

May 16, 2021

Joy Reichart

Time to decide

I’ll probably be fined for saying this, but I do not meet 2021 with relief, and I definitely do not bid 2020 good riddance. For one thing…

Jan 2, 2021

Time to decide

Jan 2, 2021

Joy Reichart

We can’t breathe

We can’t breathe because we can’t face our grief here at the deathbed of our known way of life.

Sep 7, 2020

We can’t breathe

Sep 7, 2020

Joy Reichart

Train on

Find a way to keep your spiritual practice intact, especially now.

Mar 14, 2020

Train on

Mar 14, 2020

Joy Reichart

If it was supposed to be otherwise…

Dear Life, If You wanted me to be up to more You’d tell me right?

Feb 15, 2020

If it was supposed to be otherwise…

Feb 15, 2020

Joy Reichart

Fanning the flames of anxiety

Anxiety is a natural response to feeling out of control. Our minds can’t abide this, so they usually set about making it worse.

Nov 17, 2019

Fanning the flames of anxiety

Nov 17, 2019

Joy Reichart

Your Calling is None of Your Business

Whatever we find ourselves in the middle of — even if we’re busy ignoring it — might be the very thing that’s rippling out into the world.

Jul 11, 2019

Your Calling is None of Your Business

Jul 11, 2019

Joy Reichart

Death and Right Action

Beings come into the world and they leave it. They do so on their own terms-or would, if we let them. But usually we don’t.

Jul 11, 2019

Death and Right Action

Jul 11, 2019

Joy Reichart

Let It Break

There has to be a break, a tear, a rending, as we emerge new into the blinding light. None of it is comfortable. All of it is necessary. It

Jul 11, 2019

Let It Break

Jul 11, 2019

Joy Reichart

How we know what’s true (or, why we need our bodies)

It turns out that knowing and believing are not the same thing. One lives in the mind. The other, in the body.

Dec 17, 2016

How we know what’s true (or, why we need our bodies)

Dec 17, 2016

Joy Reichart

Joy Reichart

Joy is a writer, coach, martial artist, and astoundingly flawed human doing her best in Berkeley, CA. You can read more of her writing at beginnerdom.com.

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