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Excerpts From Peg Staley’s Letters
I’m not even going to try to sort out how I can be the source of my universe and at the same time know that God holds me eternally in love. I just know both things are true. And in this Easter season I am deeply moved by the events in the Bible and their parallel in my life. Christ’s willingness to experience humanity as I do seems especially precious. And I have history and knowledge on my side as I go through the events of Holy week, knowing that Easter will come. Death itself cannot obliterate me.
January 1980Facing Cancer
“Peg has left us. She died peacefully. . . .”
There seems to be more of me in this letter than I like. However, I want you to know that, though tired, I am peacefully sad yet thankful that Peg’s pain is over.
January 1980Facing Cancer
Do Doctors Do More Harm Than Good?
It angers me that he can share that ambivalence about the value of treatment with a surgeon and get enraged when I, not only a patient but also a woman, question his recommendation.
November 1979An Interview With Steve Rizzuto
I’m basically interested in how people move and walk around. Movement is an integral activity in the life of every cell and, therefore, in every more complex system. So, motion rather than tightness in the body is what I’m interested in promoting.
October 1979The Body Temple
The human body is not an opaque, solid mass to be lugged around until it’s traded in for wings. It is an energy field that is constantly changing, a living sculpture, a mirror of ourselves, an instrument that may be more or less in tune.
September 1979Bodywork: A Primer
It’s easy to get confused by the many different approaches to working with and through the body. What follows are brief descriptions of some of the more widely practiced techniques.
September 1979An Interview With Farra Allen And Libby Outlaw
Bodywork is like a dance. What I do with a person does not just depend on me, but on that other person. Certain people draw certain energies out of me.
September 1979Facing The Struggle
Fear
Fear need not be enemy, a means of control and manipulation, but rather an integral part of being human to be experienced and even enjoyed.
August 1979Facing The Struggle
(Part Two)
Fear of annihilation, I’ve tripped over you for years and now I see you clear. I had not realized before the grip and subtlety of your tentacles.
July 1979
