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Intuitive stretching is really fun!
A few months ago I started experimenting with stretching intuitively, and I've found it really enjoyable. In this post I want to give curious readers a…
Chris Lakin
Feb 6
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Disambiguating use of the term "boundaries": "separation of tasks" vs "requirements"
I've written a few posts (1, 2) about "boundaries", but I realize now that using this term requires disambiguation between two concepts and also isn’t…
Chris Lakin
Feb 3
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An Ode to the Extinct Megafauna
Humans, we drove you to this fate, / Our hunger for your meat, / You were the perfect food for us, / But now, we must admit defeat. …
Chris Lakin
Feb 1
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An Ode to the Extinct Megafauna
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January 2023
disliking others feels different now (Boundaries Series)
Now that I understand boundaries, I've stopped disliking individuals in the same way I used to. For example, roughly a year ago I met someone and…
Chris Lakin
Jan 27
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Solitude: an essential nutrient
Even during periods when I've made myself busy, I still leave a few hours for solitude each day. —To meditate, to write, to journal, to talk aloud in…
Chris Lakin
Jan 25
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Solitude: an essential nutrient
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what unwillingness to feel felt like
I was depressed from about 2022 April to 2022 November; I think there were two overlapping depressions there, and in this post I want to write about the…
Chris Lakin
Jan 22
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what unwillingness to feel felt like
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and then my faith in external advice shattered
Years of body tension due to following external advice badly. Resolved by "What if I use my breath to expand the part that's tense and cramped?"
Chris Lakin
Jan 20
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noticing stomping and other forms of dissociation
As part of my ~meditation journey in the past year, I've started noticing often when I'm stomping in various ways. By stomping, I roughly mean the…
Chris Lakin
Jan 18
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feelings as an experience in the body
Last year I discovered 1) that most people experience emotions at physical locations in their body— and later 2) that I do too. In the time since I've…
Chris Lakin
Jan 14
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My diet of almost only red meat (+ carnivore diet FAQ)
I’m writing this to let you know that dietary alternatives exist. In my case, eating plants hurts me and I only figured this out when I decided to try…
Chris Lakin
Jan 11
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to write only about my subjective experience
In my blogging journey so far I've mostly tried to write as if I had the facts. For example, with my boundaries post I attempted to create something…
Chris Lakin
Jan 6
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December 2022
finding the safest wool pillow in the world
yes really. -- okay i've spent a bunch of hours researching this and my mom just told me to stop telling her about fabric certification standards so I'm…
Chris Lakin
Dec 20, 2022
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