Healthy Mind Heart Body

Author: Geoffrey Hale

  • Get Over It

    Hypnogogia Apparently, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I woke earlier than usual, naturally through hypnogogia and into a bizarre state of anger with my alarm clock for failing to wake me up. What the hell was I dreaming about? Sciatica I tried to fall back asleep but failed,…

  • Crossfit Benchmark Girls: Cindy

    I’m still waiting on my friend Mike to start posting about CrossFit. In the meantime, I’ll plug for CrossFit with this challenge from Aaron. I have two months to prepare for Cindy. Who is Cindy? I’m glad you asked.

  • Tonight I Craved Eggs

    I slept in this morning, took my time getting to work, and enjoyed one of my most productive days at work this year. I ignored my alarm, several of them, and for hours a chorus singing songs of guilt and shame. I took my time in the shower and had a late breakfast when I…

  • Fear of Disillusionment

    So Long Social Buttergeoffly Full disclosure, I’ve gone out the past two weekends and have regretted both. Last weekend, I didn’t really have much of a choice – two of my best friends were visiting. But I am experiencing what feels like the result of a very solid shift from social interest to productive interest.…

  • Learning to Love Yourself

    In Plato’s “Symposium,” Aristophanes, a respected Ancient Greek playwright, submits to the forum assembled around him that Love is when two people find their soul-mate in each other and recognize an ancient bond between them. The notion of soul-mates has survived to this day, deluding us about the true nature of love.

  • Mini-Memoir: Leather Jacket

    I don’t have many things and generally don’t allow myself to have a relationship with “things”. When I was home for Christmas, I rediscovered an expensive leather jacket that was given to me by a family friend who has died. I liked how I felt in the jacket so I brought it with me to…