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.

You Are Here

Because we Homo sapiens have a brain that is large enough to imagine illusions of grandeur, as individuals, we tend to overly inflate the significance of our own existence. And while it is wildly inconceivable for most of us, some of us literally...

The Others

“Fear” the emotion which Franklin D. Roosevelt declared is “the only thing we have to fear” has always been used as a political tactic. In fact, it is the favorite psychological tool of despots, dictators, religious cult leaders and self-proclaimed...

When Mortal Tongues Awake

America. Why would anyone debate whether this is “Trump’s America” or “Biden’s America”? No single human being owns our collective experience of this amazing land of the free, nor will one person ever be allowed...

Unplug, Reboot and Refresh

Three weeks ago my husband and I moved into hopefully what will be our forever home. While we had a pretty detailed “must have” list – at the top of our priorities was finding a place with beautiful tree-filled surroundings. At this point in our...

What to Believe? The Question du Jour

The gullible make the perfect prey for a manipulative narcissist. Like a cat toying with a mouse, every move is calculated to make the target squirm and squeal. All is fun and games until the final pounce when the exhausted mouse becomes food. But...

The Truth of the Collective Journey

Today, I thought about the enormous pain we go through when we lose someone close to us – when we say goodbye to our Dad or Mom or suffer the most unthinkable profound loss of a child or kiss our best friend on the cheek as they absorb their...

Morning Has Broken, How are You?

Your eyes open to greet a brand new day. Choice You get to choose from the first breath you draw in, how you want to live this day. Perspective What do you believe and why? Dark clouds or skies of blue, isn’t the sun always shining up above whether...

Triggered! Unmasking the Ego

You only have to spend a few moments perusing your Facebook newsfeed to observe the heightened reactive state many of us are living in. Post a picture of Obama or Trump and watch the nuclear explosion of verbal combat hold your personal page hostage...

Finding JOY in Chaos

What a crazy time! Our entire world combatting a lethal virus, the flames of culture wars being ignited daily, chaos and mayhem filling our cities and civil unrest dominating our nightly news stories . . . the relentless pelting of our souls can be...

911 “Whats Your Emergency?”

My husband was in Europe. At 3:30 a.m. the security alarm went off in my home. We set it every night after locking our doors but we never linked it to an actual security company. So the next step was up to me. Heart pounding out of my chest and mind...

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