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Why Am I In Such A Rush?

Apr 7, 2025 Ongoing

Walking down the street, it's an early spring morning on Tiohtià:ke, the city of Montreal is quiet in its bustle. I'm charging, setting one foot in front of the other in a power walk that seems to ind...

montreal

The Capacity For Growth Is Wondrous To Behold

Apr 6, 2025 Ongoing

This is not vanity, it is observation of fact. For years, I believed I was stuck. I have been told, repeatedly, that I bear an incurable disease. My fundamental thoughts repeated endlessly: "I am sick...

A Prayer in Questions for 2025

Apr 3, 2025 Ongoing

From Amritapuri, where practice deepens and thoughts flow freely, I offer this prayer for the year ahead. It’s not a list of answers or resolutions but a collection of questions—honest and searching. ...

india poetry

The first 78 steps of remission

Mar 27, 2025 Ongoing

1. Watch the sunrise 2. Accept 3. Refuse (the label/diagnosis) 4. Find silence (internally) 5. Eat (food, not poison) 6. Find the ground state 7. Find solitude 8. Find friends 9. Rest 10. Rest more 11...

An Auto-Immune Manifesto

Mar 27, 2025 AutoImmune Heresy

1. The transience of the body itself is holy. 2. Auto-immunity is self-defence, multifarious resistance, radical permeability, touchability. 3. Auto-immunity demands surrender, re-evaluation of what m...

AutoImmuneHeresy

Sickness in Limbo

Mar 27, 2025 AutoImmune Heresy

“The things of this world exist, they are; you cannot refuse them.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Through the nascent storm, walk away from the river. It’s my first winter near my grandfather’s grave, on occu...

AutoImmuneHeresy

A Poem About the About

Mar 27, 2025 Ongoing

It's a matter of taking in the intake and digesting the digestions I can only do the doing if I'm up for not having had having to begin with I can only do the nothing if I'm not hoping for the somethi...

poetry

She Seeks That

Mar 27, 2025 Ongoing

The Mother, The Father, Is always there. Just needs to hear your call Just as the earth Always supports your weight And the heavens Descend to your voice I am blessed to touch solitude. Finally, for ...

poetry

Crystal Clear Deciduous Dreams

Mar 19, 2025 AutoImmune Heresy

Crystal clear deciduous dreams where a body uprooted taps back into the rhizome Up on the fronds new wings take flight by attempting first to fall but find wind Caught in the bark a beetle nestles man...

AutoImmuneHeresy poetry

From Flight To Freeze: Returning From India

Feb 11, 2025 Ongoing

Friends, To return to the place is, simply, a challenge. I am shaken to the core. A full year has passed since I published my memoir (my memories, my visions) . In that year, so much within me has cha...

india

What I've Learned In 3 Months At A Hindu Monastery

May 11, 2024 Ongoing

I stood in my neigong practice facing the sun set over the Arabian Sea. Two men came to sit on the stone bench where I'd placed my bag. One, Gautama, struck the flint of conversation. He was dressed a...

India Travel Update

Apr 30, 2024 Ongoing

I have been in India for two months. I have been not reading anyone’s social media updates. I have been not working on the audiobook. I have been not doing any content marketing. I have been not worki...

india

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This work is part of my research into the poetics of health and illness. My blog has been going since 2019 in various iterations. In moving to a new platform, I always only carry-over certain posts.

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This work is part of my research into the poetics of health and illness.

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Laure Marin de la Vallée is a poet and bodyworker exploring holistic embodiment—a comprehensive approach that weaves together mind, body, and spirit.

They're the author of Auto-Immune Heresy, an account of chronic sickness and perpetual healing, bridging personal narrative, poetry, and essay. The project is a memoir steeped in a 20 year personal history with the diagnosis of chronic immune thrombocytopenia, an uncommon autoimmune condition.

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