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Tending Balance

Tending Balance

A practice for riding the waves

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Niema Lightseed
Feb 22, 2024
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In my piece about wellness myths I spoke to the ways that wellness culture and obsessive self-improvement can be harmful. But part of what makes a colonized perspective of wellbeing so dangerous is how close it lies to something real. There is a deep, trans-cultural longing for harmony within oneself and with the world around us, and several wisdom trad…

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