This blog has been a long time coming.

I’ve always been fascinated by the space between what we think, what we feel, and what we carry in our bodies. How the mind and body speak to each other, and how often we forget they’re even in conversation. Between Mind and Body isn’t just a title. It’s the space where I’ve spent much of my life trying to better understand myself.

My personal path of spiritual growth didn’t begin in a classroom or with a book. It began at home, with my mother. She didn’t lecture me about Buddhism or philosophy. She simply lived it. Quietly and steadily, she practiced in her own way, reflecting in her Buddha space, writing in her journal each evening, and living by the compassionate spirit at the heart of the Heart Sutra.

That deep compassion shaped how she moved through the world, how she responded to life, and how she touched the people around her.

The lessons she gave me were not “lessons” in any formal sense. They were shown in quiet, subtle ways. Things I often didn’t fully understand until much later in life, maybe only when I was finally ready to absorb their deeper meaning. Looking back, I realize those teachings were always there, waiting for me to catch up.

Watching her, I learned that true practice isn’t loud. It’s in how we carry ourselves, how we respond, and how we care.

Later in life, I found words that helped me put language to what I had been observing all along. Books by the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Eckhart Tolle, and Thich Nhat Hanh helped me better understand how our emotional state affects the physical body, and how the physical state, in turn, affects the mind and emotions. I also explored the writings of Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and thinkers in psychology and philosophy, all offering different angles on the same truth: we are whole beings.

What happens in the mind ripples through the body, and what the body carries shapes the mind. We can’t really separate the two.

Writing this blog is my way of continuing that learning. Yes, in some ways it is a form of teaching, but maybe even more than that, it is a way of helping myself stay present. It reminds me of the philosophy that keeps me grounded, as long as I don’t let my ego slip in and take over, which it is definitely tempted to do from time to time.

I think that is why I’ve finally decided to write down what I’ve learned, and what I continue to learn, on this path through life: to share it in the hope that others might find something useful in it, something that helps them better understand themselves, just as I am always working to better understand myself.

My hope is that these posts become a space where we can explore, reflect, and remember what it means to live more fully — between mind and body.