Fear Is An Opportunity

By Uma Bode | May 31, 2019 |

I just realized the amount of anxiety and fear I live with every day is an opportunity. An opportunity for self-awareness. That is the main thing. Self-awareness. After that, you…

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Love The Life We've Got

By Uma Bode | September 19, 2018 |

There is so much to be said for cycles. For knowing that there are cycles. For knowing that the pain always subsides, eventually. So, today, none of the darkness has…

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Slow Rejuvenation

By Uma Bode | September 4, 2018 |

Waking up today I didn’t feel like I weighed a thousand pounds. Instead, I felt energy slowly returning to my body and heart. The love and the light are finding…

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Calm After The Storm

By Uma Bode | August 19, 2018 |

UPDATE April 17, 2020: I wrote this a few years ago, after a very difficult time for me, that some of you may have witnessed. It is sitting here in…

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Meeting Bruce Springsteen

By Uma Bode | March 9, 2016 |

The impossible happened. I met Bruce. The entire circumstance of how it happened seems incredibly random and completely perfect. Here’s the story. I live in Asheville, NC, which is about…

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the Mystery

By Uma Bode | January 21, 2016 |

Religion. Spirituality. God. We are religious, or we are not religious. We are spiritual, but not religious. We are atheists. We are agnostics. We pray to Jesus, our savior. We…

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Thinking About God

By Uma Bode | August 1, 2014 |

  Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about God. The Beloved. All that is, and all that animates all that is. The One and The Way. The fragmented fullness of…

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Catching My Breath

By Uma Bode | May 22, 2014 |

I’m back! I know the whole idea was to blog about my Bruce adventure while I was in it, but you probably noticed—that didn’t happen. It turns out that seeing eight (yes, 8) Bruce…

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