Getting back to life

It's been a few topsy turvy days as I settled back into the world following the Intensive. A quick recap will get us all caught up.

Monday, I got back around 1:30, pretty much flying. I spent most of the afternoon "nesting" - cleaning, tweaking, cooking dinner for Zippy and I. It just felt like I wanted to make my life, my space, more sacred and more cared for. Zippy came home and after some tension (related to my being incommunicado for four days, the length of the intensive, and the "you are moving forward, I am stuck" stuff) we talked. Things are much better. The glow was definitely still there.

Tuesday took me to vote, then into work for a while. I alse ended up doing a huge car cleaning - my trunk had started to look like a junk drawer. All cleaned. Then off to Bristol to pick up MYA, mom, and baby bro, and up to Boston. That took all day but was a pretty smooth trip all in all. We stopped once each way - sturbridge rest area for lunch, and dunkin donuts en route home for coffee (decaf for me, I'm pretty much off caffeine!) When I got home, MP was here visiting, so we hung out and chatted for a while.

Today, more work. Then a session with my mindfulness eating facilitator - even though it was not at all about food, I ended up with about 18 food awarenesses or observations that I wanted to share with her - to integrate that work with the intensive work, and split out the food / eating stuff from the other work. Good session. Home for lunch, back to work, off to zap, back to work, then home. We went to Zippy's monthly support space tonight - which amusingly got into "mindfulness" as the facilitator (a psych doc) apparently is a proponent / fan.

Tomorrow, hopefully, life resumes with the regular amount of work. I need to get two reports out, get a couple of overdue invoices out (from the first of the month, woefully late) and start on some long term projects. Yoga too - it's been a week since my last formal practice although I practiced once up at the Intensive.

Kind of interesting to witness the post Intensive glow as it fades and integrates. I am trying hard to plant anchors and touchstones. I emailed the Intensive facilitator with my "first days back" experience. I emailed a few participants I especially want to connect to. I am writing things down, talking about things, trying to plant seeds and make small changes that will endure.