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Bridget Cook

making sense of this wild, precious life

Tag: self love

come home to yourself

April 6, 2020 bridgetmcookLeave a comment

Feeling at home within your own mind and body is hard work. It would be so easy to slip out a side door, where distraction and hardship and conflict all compete for your attention. Where your daily routine placates you and drains all your energy. Where you're asked to give more and more of yourself [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged home, self care, self love

pale white lines

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 bridgetmcook1 Comment

there i was twisted up breathing into every sensation my straining limbs had to offer one hand rooted on the mat, the other flying high above when i spied it- a white crescent scar outlined on my foot. vaguely i could remember pain it must have bled, stopping me in my tracks but the story [...]

Posted in poetryTagged failure, growth, positivity, self love, yoga

On Letting In and Letting Go

August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 bridgetmcookLeave a comment

I am a sponge. As I make my way through life, ideas, feelings, opinions and emotions surround me on all sides, swirling about, and I soak them up. They are big and loud and bright and demand to be let in. And so I absorb them all. I am a sponge. As we talk, your energy, your [...]

Posted in ColumnTagged adulthood, college, emotion, growing up, life, Prose, relationships, self, self love

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