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Category: Body & Health

Body & Health

Staying in my bones and boobs: on pay equality, health care, and how to restructure an organization

I realized yesterday, the soaring health care costs I’m experiencing are mostly about keeping me in strong bones and boobs. My entire adult life, I’ve avoided being considered…

September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 · 10 min read

Original art by Elizabeth M Matteson Abstrack bird flying toward shape with blue and black
Body & Health

Sex & Death in the time of Kali Yuga

I have 20 minutes to write this, so lucky for you, it should be short. When I was around 15 years old, my mother announced one random day,…

August 22, 2026August 27, 2026 · 4 min read

Body & Health

recovering fast from a fall

How purposeful breathing can heal trauma-in-the-making and stop pain. I just fell going down my back steps. As a 57 year old woman, the fear and negativity around…

August 8, 2026August 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Body & Health

Culling, destruction, and birth by menopause

I am experiencing menopause. And also a deep gleaning of my business ventures, clients, relationships, subscriptions, and some obligations too. And, I think these processes go together: bodily…

September 21, 2025September 22, 2025 · 3 min read

Body & Health

You won’t all get this, and that’s okay

Menopause is like a pack of wolves in a bitch’s clothing. So fun to play with tools like Facebook color boxes, then turn them on their head by…

August 30, 2025September 1, 2025 · 1 min read

Body & Health

Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk

If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 4 min read

Body & Health

Edge of Seventeen

Enjoying the full-bodied rebellion of peri-menopause, and the strength of youth. My well read (and generally badass) friend says to me the other day, “there’s a hormonal link…

March 26, 2025April 1, 2025 · 3 min read

Body & Health

High Commitment to a Low Standard

A way to make and sustain great habits. I’m pretty much sure we’ve all heard the adage “practice makes perfect.” And then as adults we recognized that perfection…

March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 · 4 min read

Body & Health

Smoking Yoga

And how I inadvertently replaced a bad habit. I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day for 14 years. During the last 7 of those years I struggled…

March 6, 2025March 7, 2025 · 3 min read

when you come down to it, the only ground you stand on is the ground you stand on
Body & Health

Are you freaking out? Try a simple practice for sanity and strength

There has been no end of folks reeling since we’ve had crazy makers at the helm of our executive branch. The extra work some of us need to…

February 27, 2025March 2, 2025 · 4 min read

Body & Health

So, I’m at the grocery store, not buying eggs

I’m seeing young parents wheeling around their kids in carts, and think: I did that. Yeah, I had kids, am still raising them, and I deserve some kind…

February 23, 2025February 23, 2025 · 2 min read

Birdie, markup art on photo by EMM Matteson
Body & Health

Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode

I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 · 3 min read

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