AuthorThe Zen Den

Hello and welcome to The Zen Den. My name is Alison and while I am passionate about many things, my most inspiring driving force is human connection. Blogger, content writer, orthopedic exercise specialist, motivational speaker, international yoga pro, published songwriter, avid poker player, mom and wife are just a few of my titles. But when I do my job at NASA, I am known simply as “The Fairy Zenmother” a role I deeply love because people invite me into their space to help them find their center, relax and stretch their muscles and destress their mind. Here in the blogosphere version of The Zen Den, I invite you into my world where I will explore ideas for creating a better tomorrow and a kinder today. And hopefully, with insight, authenticity and humor; my words, observations and experiences will help you feel calm, centered, intellectually challenged and spiritually enlightened. Alternatively, if you have something you would like to see covered in The Zen Den, just let me know. Your feedback is welcome and valuable to the success of this blog. Finally, my heart is filled with gratitude to have this opportunity to share with all of you.

3 Flights Up and 2 Steps Down

Once again life has presented a change in my best made plans. When we sold our dream home four years ago and moved from Charlotte to Houston – I knew I was in for a big life adventure. While it was a bittersweet move because of leaving all my...

Blind Spots in the Mirror

When is the last time you perused self-help books on Amazon? From “You Are a Badass” to the longtime best seller “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” the world of expert advice for self-improvement grows bigger every year. Sadly, a lot of the...

What Is Love?

What is love? Is it an emotion? Is it a choice we have to make every day? Is it an emotionless commitment we make to someone to stand by them through thick and thin? Is it a euphoric feeling associated with infatuation? Like you, I love a lot of...

The Wall that Blinds Us

As of February 2018, the Berlin Wall has been down for as long as it stood dividing East Germans from West, 28 years. The guarded concrete wall which divided the city of Berlin only served to remind both sides of their war ravaged past. Loved ones...

Mindfully Yours

Have you ever awaken from a traumatic, scary dream to find your heart pounding fast, your breathing accelerated and your stomach in knots? Most of us have experienced this a few times in our life and upon waking, we repeatedly tell ourselves “it was...

Naked and Complicit: a Toxic Match

Naked as a jaybird, the emperor proudly paraded his “new clothes” for all the people to admire. Completely intoxicated by his own ego, he insisted everyone congratulate him on his newly acquired look and while they knew he looked completely...

Life, as I “Imagineer” It

Locked in her room by her two evil stepsisters, Cinderella discovered something amazing. Instead of rolling up in a ball, crying and allowing her heart to fill with hatred towards her tormentors, she danced around the room with her broom and sang...

Soul Food

I am almost sixty years old. The idea of that number seriously blows my mind – you know that delusional mind which still thinks I’m in my thirties, until I take a really close look at myself in my 10x magnified mirror. Woah! Talk about a reality...

Choice, Your Option

Where you’re born? No choice. Parents who raise you? No choice. Your DNA and genes? No choice. The culture and belief system you are exposed to? No choice. Each of us is born with a fully malleable brain hungry for input. The input you receive...

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