by Tavius Aiton | Jun 13, 2024 | Parenting, Personal Shares, Poetry
Trust Fall To hold a baby in your arms, rock and sway as they toss and turn until finally they give their weight to you and fall asleep. Tavius Dyer 6/12/2024
by Tavius Aiton | Jun 8, 2024 | Mental Health, Parenting, Recovery
At the end of the day Self regulation of our nervous systems is key to how we experience our lives, from managing stress, energy, focus, emotions, thoughts, and reactions. When are nervous system is overstimulated our decision making part of the brain shuts down, and...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 27, 2024 | Philosphy, Spirituality
Manifestation and Reality Essentially, there are two engines driving us on the road to manifesting reality. There is the internal reality, what we experience as thought and emotion, and the external reality which is driven by our actions and reactions, and the...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 26, 2024 | Mental Health, Personal Shares, Recovery, Spirituality
My Morning Routine at Tavius.online Over the years I have developed a morning routine which helps foster creativity, self-awareness, mindfulness, spiritual growth and holistic health. It has been quite a journey of self-discovery, recovery, and spiritual growth. It...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 16, 2024 | Mental Health, Personal Shares, Recovery
Philosopher Stoned – Incarcerated 2007 Twenty years ago today I made a collect call home from a pay phone in the downtown San Jose, CA jail infirmary. When I told my mother what had happened, she repeated it back to me and something changed. “I can’t believe my...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 14, 2024 | Personal Shares, Poetry
Spring bloom in Willow Glen, CA, USA I used to write poetry. I lost a lot of my creative spirit with the loss of my son “Goose” due to the difficulty of connecting to myself again emotionally. I continue to try and learn and grow from the experience. Part of this...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 14, 2024 | Parenting, Personal Shares
Goose visits me on their 25th badly : ) I have been hearing the geese fly and call out lately. Two geese perched outside my window this morning call me to you on what would have been your 25th Bday G Boo Boo : ) Geese Fly over Spring Snow The hills around the bay are...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 11, 2024 | Parenting
Mindful Parenting After losing my sixteen year old “Goose” in 2015 I experienced one of the hardest things in life, especially for a parent , the death of a child. In some ways I am still recovering and healing from it after all of these years. I try to continue to...
by Tavius Aiton | Apr 11, 2024 | Spirituality
Philosopher Stoned – Recovered / book and album In my experience, the greatest belief I have come to hold for myself is the idea that existence is a miracle, and life is an opportunity to experience the miraculous. We all have had great moments in our lives...
by Tavius | Mar 10, 2024 | Blog
Shadow Work is a collection of experimental free-verse lyrical poetry written over two decades. In 2018 I officially released my latest book of poetry, Shadow Work, a collection of poems written over the past couple decades, many of which were originally published in...