Life’s Loving: A Book of Poems About How Life Loved Me Into Being

Cover photo and headshot: Maaike Bernstrom

Life’s Loving is a tender devotion of self love and an honoring of how the breaking and the beauty of our human life is in fact, Life loving us deeply.

 
 

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Travel helps me see the human in humanity. To meet strangers with presence, warmth, and curiosity, to be given the gift of their stories feels like an honor. Knowing we all have the same basic needs and the medicine for most is care. Care for&hel
I’ve been single more of my life than in relationship. I’ve been a curious, self exploring, deep diving human even at age 8 walking the river with my cousin Liza, eating butterfingers and talking about the meaning of life. Treasure hun
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Endless gratitude for the love in my life. 🙏🏻♥️🥰 #family #love #gratitude #lovelife
The incredible Mary Oliver always speaks to my soul. One of my survival self strategies is over thinking. My sweet Virgo brain tries to figure everything out, to have the perfect words, the full picture, understanding and knowing. This over think
A friend came up to me this weekend at folk festival and met my partner East for the first time and said to me “you seem really happy. At least on social media, and you seem like an honest person.” Honesty is a quality I value deeply so
A week or so ago a message came through while doing a reiki session for a beloved client. The messages that come through in reiki are sometimes for both the recipient and myself. A beautiful example of how giving love is also receiving love. The
Water pulling, pushing, sucking and swirling. 70 percent of me, the thing I need to live, the current of my feeling, the sway of the feminine. I feel you moving me. I feel you. The subtle yet powerful transformation of the waters that are shaping
Who are you being right now? Take a slow deep breath. Who are you now? #being #ontology #ontologicalcoaching #breathe #breathworkhealing #notice #mindfulness
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Discussing love in all its forms through conversations that provoke awareness, curiosity and expansion, Emily dives into topics ranging from sex and relationship to the magic of plant medicine and travel, in order to share the power of living your life with love and loving the life you live.