Notes on Being

My weekly-ish Substack newsletter, sharing essays with thoughts, theories, and poetry about what it means to live well and be fully present. Insights into how to - focused on the ways and means of deep, intimate self-nourishment. Critiques of how our culture, including mainstream wellness world, intersects with simplicity and presence. Examinations of the intersection of vitality and spirituality - how being nourished, and present, connects us with God and allows us to exist in the divine mystery of it all.

 
 

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Wrote this a year ago, found it today perusing old documents. Anyone else have endless google docs (and iphone notes and journals) with barely-begun books and half written essays lying about? Hundreds of hours of writing I’ve done, unfinished,
Some thoughts on the pattern of pathologizing everything that happens often in the holistic and spiritual communities ☁️ #holistichealing #holistichealth #conspirituality #healingmentality
More than ever before, I am certain that nothing is certain. I am sure that despite years of studying wellbeing and spiritual seeking, it's all a mystery. God, our bodies. There is no way, let alone a right way, to heal, to thrive, to grow. Instagra
Emott Ingraham born July 20th at 10:20am 🤍 Ah the online birth announcement, a genre filled with effusive words and platitudes, none of which begin to add up to the complexity of birth and the newborn time. It truly is the fourth trimester, a perio
Thoughts on this summer vs. last from your friend who didn’t take the most popular sharp medicine (which was / is actually a gene therapy). #medicalfreedom #informedconsent #bodyautonomy #bodysovereignty
Excerpts from last week’s essay on the archetype of the sky gods in these slides - read in full at the link in my bio… In this essay, I present the primary forms of supreme beings that existed in ancient societies and attempt to separat
Todays thoughts on truth, deception, surrender, wholeness, and faith. 🤍🙏🏻
When the ultrasound tech told us that we were having twins, the first words out of my mouth were, “but I’m opening a business.” She said “honey you’re doing a lot more than that now.” So I opened the business, a