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Tuning In December 2022

12/1/2022

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Each month I post an update called Tuning In on what I'm up to and various content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational only, but a few are affiliate links that help me keep up my website.

Events: 
 

Facilitating: 
  • Center for Chronic Illness - Web-Based Rare Chronic Illness Web-Based Support Group Tuesday December 6th, 2022 at 4pm PST
  • Center for Chronic Illness - Living with Thyroid Eye Disease Web-Based Support Group Tuesday December 6th, 2022 at 6pm PST
  • Center for Chronic Illness - Living with Cystinosis Web-Based Support Group, Tuesday December 20th, 2022 at 4pm PST
  • Center for Chronic Illness - Supporting Loved Ones of Those Living with Cystinosis, Tuesday December 20th, 2022 at 6pm PST

Publications: 
  • ​1 of my haiku was published in The Haiku Foundation's Haiku Dialogue on November 2nd, 2022

National Days: 
  • December 10th is Human Rights Day 
  • December 16th is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 
  • December 21st is the Winter Solstice
  • December 25th is Christmas 
  • December 31st is New Year's Eve 
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National Months:  
  • National Human Rights Month

Dear Valued Community, 

There is something sacred about the last month of the year, the last month of 2022. What a different world we live in from a year ago and two years ago. This is the first holiday season I will be spending with family since the pandemic began. It doesn't feel completely safe, but it feels safer. 

Be mindful of the residue left over from the past almost 3 years. People who work with trauma know that we don't move through something like a global pandemic without any reverberations. Be curious about your lack of energy and your sadness. We have a lot to recover from and it doesn't happen overnight. 

We are on the eve of a new year, a new time, new opportunities. 

With Gratitude, 

​Kerry ​
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Islandwood Retreat Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington

What I'm Reading Related for Therapy: My Inner Sky: On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between by Mari Andrew 

"From New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky—twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn—that serves as a loyal companion for life's curveballs. 

A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of home and the challenges of loneliness, finding love in the most unexpected of places--from birds nesting on a sculpture to a ride on the subway--and a resounding case for why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic.

My Inner Sky empowers us to transform everything that's happened to us into something meaningful, reassurance that even in our darkest times, there's light and beauty to be found."


What I'm Reading for Fun: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 
​
"It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church."
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(I'm a proud member of the sloth reading club, so what I'm reading will not always change monthly) ​
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Projects: Self-development book on trauma and worthiness, submitting haiku & poetry, ongoing content for various publications. Considering next steps in career. ​
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Islandwood Retreat Center, Bainbridge Island, Washington

Poem: 

All the Hemispheres
by Hafiz 

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.
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Scooter on the couch

Quote: "Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth...it is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell
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