Archive - Whatever the River Brings

🎵 Tend Your Heart: a song about coping with news-pain

A song for those who have trouble holding the sorrow and horror that comes from taking in news about suffering

16 hrs ago •

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🪷 No More Trying to Add Up

reflections inspired by the book No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

Oct 1 •

September 2025

🪷 Sometimes compassion looks like…

Which kind do you need today?

Sep 30 •

🪷How to Measure My Decisions

Another self-reminder poem, this one for helping myself not be swayed by feelings such as anxiety when I'm taking important steps for self-care and…

Sep 27 •

🪷 Where I'll Find True Safety

a learning-poem to help me remember this

Sep 26 •

🪷 Sorrow-clouds

Putting words to my recurring experience upon seeing news and social media in recent times

Sep 25 •

🌊 Reflections on Survival Mode

A perspective that is helping me give myself more grace

Sep 22 •

🪷 Boundaried, Not Blended

rhyming reflections on my interpersonal dynamics

Sep 21 •

🪷 True safety may not always feel like safety

a message to my nervous system

Sep 20 •

🪷 Self-care is not just essential, but OK

What I'm trying to learn

Sep 19 •

🪷 Dear Thinking Brain

We can do better to help our poor, besmirched Feeling Brain

Sep 16 •

🪷 Nervous System Mending

My reasoning-mind is not the problem

Sep 15 •

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