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Humility (Conservation of Energy, Part 3)
I learned the climbers rest step early in my life, growing up at high altitude, the child of mountaineers. Step, breathe, step, breathe,...
Eve Bernfeld
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Red Light
I hit every red light on the way to work the other day. And I wasn’t exactly running early. But eventually, after about the fourth red...
Eve Bernfeld
Sep 12, 20221 min read
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Waste Not...
I was commiserating with a student yesterday about how hard it is to find time to dedicate to the Alexander Technique practice of lying...
Eve Bernfeld
Mar 2, 20222 min read
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Joyful Roundup
We’re deep into the season when we are supposed to be joyful. Whether we like it or not. And coming to the end of yet another year of...
Eve Bernfeld
Dec 14, 20213 min read
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Five Things I’m Saying NO to So That I Can Say YES to What I Want
Lately, after a year and a half of dormancy, opportunities have started coming my way—things that elicit, as my friend Melissa would say,...
Eve Bernfeld
Sep 1, 20212 min read
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What If Judgment...*
1. What if judging myself (and the ensuing shame spiral) is just another habit that is not currently serving me? Could I approach my...
Eve Bernfeld
Jul 20, 20213 min read
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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?
Eve Bernfeld
Jun 10, 20202 min read
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Is NO a Four-Letter Word? Part 1: Ado Annie
I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.
Eve Bernfeld
Mar 8, 20203 min read
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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.
Eve Bernfeld
Jan 8, 20202 min read
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The Crux
Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.
Eve Bernfeld
Oct 16, 20193 min read
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Life-Changing
We all wish for change to be a relatively fast, easy and painless process, but real change is slower and slipperier.
Eve Bernfeld
Mar 20, 20193 min read
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Lighten UP--Holiday Edition
Imagine you are a candle. Your head floats up with ease like the flame. Your feet melt into the ground like wax.
Eve Bernfeld
Dec 16, 20182 min read
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The Good Stuff
What if the PAUSE is where the good stuff happens? The PAUSE is the place of inspiration, of creativity, of discovering the unexpected.
Eve Bernfeld
Oct 10, 20182 min read
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Stay
When I stop and really STAY in this moment, I realize the effort I was making to try to be in two places at once.
Eve Bernfeld
Aug 27, 20182 min read
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Stop the Insanity!
It's not just learning to stop tensing my shoulders. It's about eschewing a straightforward, well-defined parenting path to stumble down a
Eve Bernfeld
Aug 13, 20182 min read
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The Essentials
I am Inhibiting the habit of uselessly stressing myself out over everything else. Because there will be a season for those things too.
Eve Bernfeld
Jul 8, 20181 min read
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day OFF
You know it’s a bad sign when you can’t remember how to turn off your computer. Evidence of the epic need for my newest undertaking: day OFF
Eve Bernfeld
Jan 3, 20184 min read
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What Was I Scared Of?
On constant overload, it’s easy to see danger everywhere, and to begin to live smaller and smaller and smaller lives.
Eve Bernfeld
Oct 29, 20162 min read
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Saying Grace
There is no room for gratitude or change if we never stop.
Eve Bernfeld
May 5, 20161 min read
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