The card for the month of September is the Eight of Cups.
The Eight of Cups is an invitation to go within, to journey away from something that may no longer work for you. It’s asking you to reconnect and check with yourself about what you may want to leave behind.
Read MoreA few weeks ago I went skiing, and I want to tell you why it was a big deal.
Read MoreOn September 7th, Bonds Magazine spoke with Tosca DiMatteo on IG Live about the stories and narratives that no longer serve women and keep us small.
Read MoreWe proudly launch Bonds Collaborations with the HerStory Jewelry Collection, by maker & healer, Leah Fox. This exclusive collection was created by Leah using lapis and turquoise, stones she chose to support and celebrate women speaking their truth.
Read MoreI miss that wild imagination of my childhood. I miss my ability to get lost in an art project, forgetting about my phone, email or the passing of time. I miss just being in that moment. How do I get that back?
Read MoreI've been a perfectionist and an overachiever my entire life. I put so much stock into my work performance that even the smallest mistake makes me question my value.
Read MoreIn early June I went on an adventure traveling nearly 1,500 miles through national parks in the American Southwest.
Read MoreMany of us may assume in 2021 that the Me Too movement changed the way women experience their lives and their workplaces. Yet, the research into Whisper Networks by Carrie Ann Johnson, points to a very different reality.
Read MoreHow and what does our posture communicate? What do people assume about us, based on how we present ourselves? How can we change those assumptions, if we don’t like them?
Read MoreI believe apologies are important when you've truly done something wrong, however, I have found that as an adult, I have become an almost compulsive apologizer.
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I have a love/ hate relationship with emotions. I’ve struggled to express them, but I’ve also been fascinated by their energy and how they show up in my daily life.
Read MoreAnger’s not graceful. It’s not beautiful, it’s not feminine. It’s ugly, out of control, mean, even scary. I hate it.
Read MoreSeveral years ago, while standing on a platform at Metrotech station in Brooklyn and waiting for the F train to arrive, I had a full-on rage blowup.
Read MoreYou don’t know your house until you know it in the middle of the night,
When the floorboards creak.
Things settle.
Read MoreWhen your love is betrayed and your trust severed with the precision of a scalpel, an emergence of grace is possible. “I’m devastated,” the betrayed one wails. “Stop with the spiritual mumbo jumbo!” Hold on, before you shut me down, read one more paragraph, then decide.
Read MoreI fully believe aging is a gift; I am grateful for the wisdom and resilience I feel I gain with each year of my life, and yet, I cannot seem to embrace my aging body.
Read MoreOver the years, I have experienced many shades of rejection. As a child of an immigrant family, I accepted this as an inevitable byproduct of my fate, and tried earnestly to assimilate. But after living in North America for almost 30 years, I still get asked where I am “really from”, which leaves me perplexed and feeling adrift.
Read MoreIn the face of rising anti-Asian hate crimes, Bonds Magazine spoke with a friend, Joy, to get her firsthand reaction to recent events. Joy is an Asian immigrant from Hong Kong who is an American-educated attorney working for a nonprofit organization.
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