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    Insights From the Heart: Learning to Listen to My Body, Mind & Spirit

    by Karen Eller Apr 02, 2019 4 minutes
    Insights From the Heart: Learning to Listen to My Body, Mind & Spirit by Karen Eller. Photograph of a woman looking into her own reflection by Eugenia Maximova.
    Photograph by Eugenia Maximova

    On a mission to overcome a deeply-rooted anxiety, one woman learned the power of listening to her body to release fear and embrace love.

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    Knock. Knock. Knock. Actually, the sound from the person banging on my hotel door at 10pm was more like, Pound, Pound, Pound.

    I had come for a solitude trip although I wasn’t really trying to get away from anyone. Rather, this one-night trip was to overcome my paralyzing fear of being away from my husband. It would be my first time I was out of town without Don since his heart attack and subsequent bypass surgery. In the two-plus years since, I had been afraid to be more than across town from him. My mind kept reiterating: 

    What if something happens again and I’m far

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