On One Hand

I can’t believe she was only 8 when I first wrote this - these four years have flown by amongst all the change, the upheaval. Today will mark the 12th birthday of my darling first born, how totally perfect I can share a bit about her entry to earth with you! To read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/welcome-gracie-juniper Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

I will never look back on this time and regret it. I will remember what mattered most. Read the blog, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/what-matters-most Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

A new month during This Weird Time and my life is in flux in ways I didn’t anticipate. How do I navigate with any sense of authenticity, how do I keep my bearings when the world feels mad? I focus on the bright spots. Read the blog, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/bright-spots Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

As a habitual do-er I’m learning to pause, to pull back all my energy, all my force, and to just…be. Read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/re-treat Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

What if home is only ever a feeling? Read the blog; https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/home-part-1 Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

In this Weird Time it feels like every system is crumbling, breaking down. I think we’re being called to radically reshape what we’ve inherited Are we up to the challenge? Read the blog here, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/the-breakdown Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Where logic meets matters of the heart. Read the blog, https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/heart-magic Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

A friend and I chatted about the need to loosen up, to feel more joy, to have fun in the domesticity of everyday life. Read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/pleasure-joy-fun Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Join me for a reading of some short fiction! Sometimes my blog bores me, escaping into a world of my creation helps ease the repetition of a well-worn life. I’ve been slowly recording these blog entries from 2020 on and loading them up to Spotify, Apple Podcast and here on Substack. If you enjoy these, please share or consider subscribing to support my writing journey. Read the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/the-pinecone-short-fiction Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

I almost couldn’t read this one aloud. It’s Good Friday 2020… Recording this piece dropped me right back into this moment - watching as my kids attempt to ‘socially distance’ themselves from their peers, leaving me unsettled and angry. Knowing I’d be met with outrage, I started to share my concerns about what this Weird Time was about to herald for us all, and I was unfriended over and over - but I was also met with a lot of compassion and understanding. Spoiler alert: I called a lot of what unfolded over the next two years. Ready for this? Original blog found here: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/is-it-the-right-thing Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Exploring - the spark that was created in the explosion of normalcy that we’re all facing to become a flame of desire for a new way of living. Read the original blog, here: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/what-s-missing Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

For all there is, is now. Check out the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/the-wisdom-of-now Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Continuing my sense of unease in this Weird Time, I can’t get my head around anyone deliberately shutting down our expression of or experience of joy. See the original blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/don-t-censor-joy Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Sifting through a lot of feelings in the early days of this Weird Time and trying to choose the ones that feel like truth - because truth has a feeling, doesn’t it? Read the original blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/all-at-once Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Imagine… You wake up feeling well rested. You see the sun shining around the cracks of your curtain in the bedroom and know in your bones it will be a warm day. Rising out of bed, your body feeling capable and strong, you move with ease to the kitchen. Here we explore the themes of being given the gift of time, can you create it to be the ideal version for you? Read the original blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/a-life-that-is-good Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

When things get tough, sometimes you’ve got to dig deep. The only way out - is through. Check out the blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/only-way-out Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

What does a kookaburra have to do with cov*d? Recalling my backpacking years in Australia and relating it to the angst of just hanging in there during this Weird Time. So much outside of my control, how do I cope when all I want to know is what’s next?? Read the original blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/so-what-s-next Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

Exploring the themes of simply choosing, and CLAIMING, who you are. Find the blog here: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/claiming-who-you-are Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

In this Weird Time, when zooming out too far becomes fear inducing and painful, bringing yourself into the VERY moment can bring you the peace you seek. My original blog: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/microfocusing-on-the-moment Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe

We bought and renovated a class A RV!! A small recap, as a family of 4 plus one on the way, of our time spent on our three month RV tour through the US and western Canada in 2019. Original blog post: https://www.hivewellbeing.ca/post/south-facing-adventure-1 Get full access to Emmy’s Substack at emmypickering.substack.com/subscribe