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Expressing ourselves through words or images or movement is not about “talent” or being “good enough” to be a professional
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 3
- 2 min
The Middle of the Story
I’m in the middle of creating my MFA thesis right now. I say “creating” instead of “writing” because I haven’t gotten to the words to...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Things I Don't Regret
Sometimes on rainy, interminable, nearly-a-year-into-a-pandemic days I look around in a fog: What the heck should I be doing right now?...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Dec 29, 2020
- 5 min
“Here I Am, Deal With It.”
“Not only did [Alexander Technique] … calm me down, but it … brought me back to myself … and less into anxiety brain of like, ‘you're...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Dec 28, 2020
- 2 min
Good Story
There is an old fable. I’m not sure of its origins, though I’m sure one could find out with a little internet digging. It’s the plot of...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
We Teach What We Need to Learn
Last week I made myself sick. Well, me and some streptococcus bacteria. First I feared COVID. Egads. But one swab up my nose and one down...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 3: “Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.” I spent the better part of a recent Friday trying to get ahold of Oregon...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jul 21, 2020
- 3 min
Is NO a Four-Letter Word?
Part 2: Without No, there can be no Yes.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jun 10, 2020
- 2 min
Creating a Daily Alexander Technique Practice
As we strive to change the world, is it selfish to work on ourselves? Or is it the only way?
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
How Do We Make Meaning in Difficult Times?
Playing with arithmetic today, I figure I’ve taken over 200 walks in the last 13 weeks since I’ve been staying at home. Yesterday I baked...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Apr 12, 2020
- 3 min
Working on Myself
My 95-year-old Grannie says she’s under house arrest. No, no, everyone assures her, she’s in protective custody. How are you doing in...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Tangled
I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Mar 8, 2020
- 3 min
Is NO a Four-Letter Word? Part 1: Ado Annie
I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Feb 6, 2020
- 3 min
Fun With the Scientific Method
Asking the right questions might be most life-affirming favor we can do for someone. Or for ourselves.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Jan 8, 2020
- 2 min
It's the HOW
My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
If You're Not Scared...
“If I’m not scared, I’m not doing enough,” Mary told me. This was her attitude toward life. She was a jazz singer I took lessons with...
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Eve Bernfeld
- Dec 2, 2019
- 2 min
Stormy Weather
Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min
Self-Portrait
What if we were to expand our idea of ourselves to include the WHOLE THING?
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 31, 2019
- 2 min
My Self-Care Today
To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.
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Eve Bernfeld
- Oct 23, 2019
- 2 min
Fun with Numbers
$100,000,000,000 – Estimated Total Cost (per year) associated with Back Pain in the US (as of 2009). 31,000,000 – Number of Americans...
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