by Sherri Koehler | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog Posts
I’d had a plan to write about the slippery slope of using comparison as your gratitude practice, how it robs you of the joy of being truly grateful. Then I saw some great advice about choosing gratitude over apologies. That lead me to a charming comic of this...
by Sherri Koehler | Nov 14, 2017 | Blog Posts
This month I’ve been sharing a short poem, “Yes”, by the late William Stafford, who taught at a college in the Portland area and was both the Poet Laureate of Oregon as well as the United States. Despite being a poetry-mad teen growing up in the...
by Sherri Koehler | Nov 11, 2017 | Blog Posts
Last week I talked with my classes and private clients about cultivating gratitude even when we don’t feel like it. Gratitude is a tool we can use to help lift us up when we’re feeling low. Studies on gratitude practice have shown it improves our sense of...
by Sherri Koehler | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog Posts, Meditation, Practice
Metta, from Pali: loving-kindness Meaning: benevolence, friendliness, amity, kindness, good-will, and an active interest in the well-being of others. Metta is considered one of the sublime attitudes of an enlightened being, the first of the Four Immeasurables,...
by Sherri Koehler | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog Posts
I last wrote about my experience of sexual trauma. Days later I began to see the first #MeToo posts, first on Facebook, then on Twitter and Instagram. Articles are showing up about the viral explosion of people talking about their experience with sexual trauma on...
by Sherri Koehler | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog Posts
Content Warning: discussion of sexual trauma and abuse by parent (mother) A year ago I responded on Twitter to a hashtag, #NotOK, created by author Kelly Oxford, and spoke publicly about the sexual trauma I’d experienced in the years before I turned 21....
