Healthy living with Helena

07/09/2025

07/09/2025

Try these and let me know how you feel.

21/05/2025

So Trump and the Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other crucial benefits for our most vulnerable citizens. They promised they wouldn’t, but here we are..
I care about everyone, but on this I will personally be affected. My daughter is on Medicaid, and I get a monthly tax credit through the ACA to afford my healthcare. I’m not a “parasite”. I work hard, at 2 jobs and am very grateful for the help.

It hurts that they’re actually ok making life harder for single moms like me, as well as old people and millions of low income kids and their families, just so they can give more tax cuts to themselves, the people who already have all the money and power. We need more help, not less.

When will the millionaires and billionaires like Trump and his whole cabinet, and congress ever have enough money? They already have it all. Instead of sharing in the wealth, they want to take money from low income families, old people and children, to keep even more of the already obsecene amounts of money they hog?? The wealth gap is already insane, this will make it worse..

Make it make sense. It’s so backwards. We are a wealthy nation.

My heart is kind of breaking for the blatant cruelty and lack of caring from too many of our elected officials. They work for us, but are not looking out for the well-being of all of us.

If you care, this would be a good time to call or email your elected officials, and tell them to vote NO on this harmful budget bill it will also add Trillions to our deficit over time.

It’s insanity and we need to all speak out and stop them. We have the power, if we decide to use it. There’s so much at stake.. (there’s a lot more, like mandated sales of our precious public lands, and rollbacks of renewable energy tax credits etc). It’s a really big bad bill!!

Use the 5Calls app, they make it super easy. Reach out to me if you need help. It’s not as hard as you think.

Thank you

22/01/2025

I think this is the most beautiful frame on the interplay of language and emotion. In the vastness of our experiences — the shipwrecks, the riptides, the storms — there’s a critical moment when what we’re feeling washes into language. That’s the moment everything changes. After struggling in that sea, wrapping words around our emotions can feel like finally being able to stand and catch our breath. The waves will certainly still toss us around, but we can touch the bottom, and we can see a way to that shore.

In a world where so many of us are feeling emotionally dysregulated, disconnected from ourselves and each other, and distrustful of the world in general, the heart can feel like a treacherous sea. Safe passage to shore seems even more essential, and this means increasing our emotional vocabulary. We need more shoreline — more words, more access to the nuanced differences between emotions that can present in similar ways.

Our team has been digging back into “Atlas of the Heart” and sharing what we’ve learned and continue to learn about some of the flotsam and jetsam that we’re all navigating around right now. We’ve explored despair and hope (in micro-doses), stress and overwhelm, and we’re working on some posts for the new year.

We’re also excited about revisiting stories we wrote for our 2024 ABK Edit. We’re so grateful for the people who are being awkward, brave, and kind with their work and their lives. The wisdom and beauty they’re putting out into the world feels like it’s own kind of life preserver.

Soundtrack for this quote has to be “Sailing” by Christopher Cross. I love a song about sailing that actually feels like the wind. And, your fun fact for today — courtesy of my friend Rick Beato — that orchestral intro to “Sailing” was an accident. The two tracks didn’t sync so we lucked into that gorgeous intro. Good music is always helpful in a rough sea!

15/01/2025