Day 21 - The Journey Continues
Last month, I set myself a challenge to establish a new habit of writing. Every day for the last 21 weekdays, I have gotten myself out of bed at least an hour early to sit with my notebook, a cup of coffee,...
Day 20 - Living What I Teach
Five years ago I slipped and fell on the stairs in my house. It was midnight. Dave had left the house a few hours before to get on a plane to South Africa for a business trip. I was tired, and I came...
Day 19 - The Nature of the Spiral
One of the things I most love about the Alexander Technique is the spiraling nature of what it has to teach me. I circle around my habits, over and over, but each time a little differently, a little...
Day 18 - Going Gluten Free
Harriette said, “Seriously, Robbin, have you thought about giving up gluten? Wheat gluten is just like glue that gums up your joints.” It was the fall of 2012, and Harriette and I were sitting in her...
Day 17 - The Dreaded Question
“So, what is the Alexander Technique?” Ah, the dreaded question. There I am, having a lovely conversation with a stranger, and they ask me what I do for a living, and I tell them, and then…. That Question....
Day 16 - The Proverbial Onion
Have you ever heard a process compared to “peeling an onion?” This phrase comes up often in Alexander Technique studies in reference to the releasing of old habits and what you find lurking underneath....
Day 15 - Traveling to Compromise
A year before Dave and I got married, we got very close to calling it off. We had an enormous fight one day while traveling that turned out to be a defining, line-in-the-sand, watershed moment for both...
Day 14 - The Power of Choice
Life, to me, has been a long series of choices. Sometimes they’ve been good, sometimes not so much. But every single thing that has happened to me has involved a choice. Even when I was small enough that...
Day 13 - Understanding Self-Worth
I processed many things while I sat and stared out that window into the woods in 2007. Among them were pretty serious questions of self-worth that were going to impact anything I wanted to do moving forward,...
Day 12 - Changes, Transitions, and Re-inventions
Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. Transition is the inner reorientation that you have to go through in order to incorporate changes into your life. Without a transition,...