Jan 14, 2023 4 min A Little Blu Light “We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.” It was when I was pulling weeds at Abalone Cove for Palos...
Jan 14, 2023 4 min Today's Bike Ride Today’s bike ride was slightly different. After a long while of not listening to my Inner Being, her gentle questions & innocent desires...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneOct 18, 20193 min readNuanceI have been slam-dunked by reality, once again. It's awfully humbling to notice what thoughts are bought versus what thoughts are had. I...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneOct 9, 20192 min readYou Have to Stop Searching for 'WHY?' Sometimes After one week at the Boys and Girls Club of Carson, I am jobless. It was my first day, and I took a look at the middle-schoolers...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneOct 3, 20193 min readI Love Being Full.This past weekend, I had the opportunity of a lifetime to lose myself in the armpit of nature, located in Angeles National Forest. What a...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneSep 26, 20194 min readA Big Gift, Wrapped in ShitAt my last appointment with my nurse practitioner, she reminisced the first time I was practically dragged into the building by my loving...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneSep 26, 20193 min readClean up on Aisle EmilyIt turns out, picking up your life and moving across the country is fucking hard. Who knew? My last few weeks in Salt Lake City consisted...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneSep 7, 20193 min readAre you Hungry?“It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneAug 23, 20191 min readThe Miracle of Individuation“The real miracle of individuation and reclamation of Wild Woman is that we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneJun 29, 20196 min readMy Body 'MembersI have encountered a rift in my story. A lift in the tides in which my sealskin (that enables me to traverse to the underworld of...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneMay 10, 20197 min readLosing, Finding, and Losing Myself Again ... in EuropeLast week, James and I landed in France. We spent the days in Pharmacies trying to find Miralax, trying to interpret French words we knew...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneDec 23, 20181 min readKeep on Keeping OnAs for now, I am completing a year in a life. A year of figuring out how both of my parents affect the woman I am. A year of recognizing...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneNov 1, 20182 min readBecoming a Van AlstyneSpending the past 7 months in a residential treatment center has been ugly, brutal, and downright terrifying. It has caused me to take a...
Emily Rose Van AlstyneNov 1, 20173 min readMy Life VestNovember 2017 Control. It is the addiction that drives us all; in order to feel like a contributing member of society, to feel somewhat...