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Elizabeth Reumont
Sep 104 min read
The Gift of Covid
After four years of dodging a tiny globular germ bullet, on a Friday afternoon in August at the Pont Aven Museum, there it was, lurking...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Jul 273 min read
In, and out of Practice
Ever drop the ball on an activity you practice regularly? A second language, an instrument....yoga? As I watch the opening of the Olympic...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Dec 6, 20235 min read
Aging
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. ― Eleanor Roosevelt I'll never be as young as I am...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Sep 25, 20234 min read
A Decade of Transplantation: Being Well and Ill
I have a 77 year old liver; the rest of my body is 51. This mismatch of age between a vital organ and the rest of my body does not rest...
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Elizabeth Reumont
May 9, 20237 min read
The Choices We Make
There is a Buddhist quote that I have held in my consciousness for some time, known by many as the opening lines of the famous...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Mar 17, 20237 min read
The thing about cancer...
…is that no matter how familiar one is with the word, it’s a shock no one is ever prepared to hear about themself. Not many people could...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Feb 19, 20236 min read
Notes from the Field: On Healing
Every so often, I catch a glimpse of 'the arc'. Not Noah's ark, or the arc of a rainbow (though every so often, I catch a glimpse of one...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Feb 7, 20236 min read
movement of the psyche: ii
Before I write another line, it seems relevant to establish what 'the psyche' is, considering the title of this trio of posts, and the...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 17, 20224 min read
movement of the psyche: i
Since I was three years old, I’ve been poked and prodded by strangers more times than I can count, or even remember. Hundreds of blood...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Oct 11, 20225 min read
The imprint of Stigma
Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Sep 7, 20224 min read
Fear Mongering
Someone recently contacted me in reponse to my latest newsletter, requesting to be removed from future communications because they...
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Elizabeth Reumont
May 10, 20223 min read
The Ticking Time Bomb
I recently rewatched the James Bond movie Goldfinger. Towards the end of the film, Mr. Bond finds himself, as usual, in a precarious...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Apr 23, 20222 min read
Adaptations: navigating change
I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. Sailing and other water-based activities were a large part of my youth, yet it wasn't until much later...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Mar 30, 20223 min read
honey on the razor's edge
The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Mar 14, 20222 min read
Booking Open: April 10, Yoga on the Farm
There is a saying: when one door closes, another opens.The past few years have felt like a revolving turntable of portals. Nonetheless,...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Mar 11, 20224 min read
The salve of the soul
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson Observing the events...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Feb 23, 20224 min read
how to fall off a horse
Comon'. We've all done it. Ok, maybe not literally, but we've all had a moment when things didn't quite go to plan. Blindsided. Knocked...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Feb 6, 20222 min read
Roots
I've always had great reverence for roots. Of trees, plants and fungi alike, there is so much to learn about what lies below based on...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 24, 202112 min read
On Yoga, Veganism and Wellness, part 3
March, 2020. By the time Covid broke out, I had stopped commuting into London on a weekly basis for work. After four months, it had...
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Elizabeth Reumont
Nov 18, 20212 min read
All of me.
So, this morning while taking my son to school I had a sort of unbelievable realisation. I’m half Lithuanian! Growing up as American, my...
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