Tuning Into the Body’s Wisdom FollowFollowFollow We are faced with big and small choices on a daily basis. The decision to take an exciting new job that comes with a lot of responsibility, or choosing to leave a familiar long term relationship that is fraught with...
The Acceptance and Change Continuum FollowFollowFollow Quieting down and tapping into inner wisdom requires many things, but one of the most profound is working with acceptance and change. Life hands us so much chaos, and we can create plenty of our own. How do we...
Find a Comfortable Seat FollowFollowFollow In almost every yoga class, before moving into the sequence of shapes, the instructor starts with a prompt to notice what you are sitting on or focus on your breath. These are different ways of grounding. In this first piece...
Cultivating Inner Wisdom by Irene MCGarrity FollowFollowFollow Finding small ways to cultivate joy and connect with our inner wisdom. Through life struggles, trauma, and cultural conditioning. We lose touch with our own inner guide. Cultivating Inner Wisdom is an...
Fist coming January 2022 FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising Press 2020 Chapbook Contest Winner is Fist by Emily Wall. The contest was judged by Monica Prince, author of How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem ([PANK], 2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival...
These Americans, winner of the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize FollowFollowFollow Jyotsna Sreenivasan’s These Americans, the winner of the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, explores what it means to be an American, from the birth of a child to an immigrant couple to the...
Novella Awake published December 2021 FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising Press 2020 fiction contest winner is Nancy Johnson with her novella Awake. Kathryn Trueblood, author of Take Daily as Needed and The Baby Lottery, judged the finalists and selected Johnson’s...
On those sooty, gray train rides into the city to take Dad to the VA, I found myself rehearsing the questions that were most on my mind, that I longed to ask but was too afraid to ask. Questions like: Are you afraid of dying? Do you ever regret having kids? Did you...
Luciana Francis is a Brazilian-born, UK-based writer of poetry and fiction. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in Anthropology and Media from Goldsmiths, University of...