Nancy S.Hickson, Peace of Self

06/09/2026

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05/20/2026

There's a point where even good things become too much.

I love information. I love learning, growing, being curious about the world. But lately I keep coming back to this: we are so saturated.

It's like good food. You can love it deeply and still reach the point where your body says — enough. I need to digest what I already have.

Information is the same. Ideas are the same. Input of any kind is the same.

And when we don't listen to that signal, we don't just feel overwhelmed — we stop being able to use any of it. It becomes counterproductive.

What we're really hungry for, I think, isn't more. It's depth. The kind that comes when we finally stop adding and start absorbing. 🌊

What are you ready to put down for a moment?

Read the full blog on peaceofself.com

05/18/2026

How cool is this Sundial!!!

Standing in front of this stone sundial outside a *Waldorf Steiner School close to where my sister lives in Norway made me pause.

It made me think,- How connected are we still to our natural time rhythms?

Before screens, schedules, and constant notifications, time was felt through light, movement, seasons, and presence.

There’s something beautiful about learning time through nature instead of pressure.

Could we take this as a gentle reminder that maybe we are never meant to move this fast all the time!?

*Waldorf education (founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1919) is a holistic, experimental system that develops students intellectual, artistic, and practical skills.

05/06/2026

Your body is always looking for a way back to you.

We hold so much — other people's energy, the pace of the day, everything we haven't yet said or felt or released. And after a while we become like a pressure cooker. Something needs to give.

It doesn't have to be a yoga class or an hour on the mat. Sometimes it's as simple as standing in the grocery store line and taking your arms up in a stretch. Feeling the length of your spine. Taking up space.

That moment of connection — however small — has more value than most of us realize.

And if someone looks at you? Let them. 🌿

It's okay to take up space. In a room, in a conversation, in your own life.

04/22/2026

At the end of this week I'll be flying out to the UK for a rowing competition. Almost every day I’ve been on the water, as over the last year we’ve been doubling down on training and practice.

The 'we' here is the seven of us: the crew and coxswain. Together in the boat. In a boat, you hold a commitment, a rhythm. This intense practice has opened my eyes to deep layers of human connection.

Because there's a difference between a team and a crew I didn't fully have words for — until I heard astronaut Christina Koch speak after returning from the Artemis II moon mission.

She said: "A crew is inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked."
And then: "Planet Earth — you are a crew."

I thought about my rowing crew when I heard that. The way we show up on the hard days, no judgment, no keeping score. The way the boat feels different when someone is missing — not because a role isn't filled, but because that person isn't there.

A team works on something together. A crew holds each other while they do.

I didn't grow up playing team sports, but being part of a crew has always been an important part of my life. As a flight attendant, during bike tours when I always love to spend my ‘rest days’ being part of the crew supporting the other riders, and in rowing.

This kind of belonging feels so right, because it is universal.

We are all crewing something. Who’s in your crew?

Full reflection in the blog — link in bio. 🌊🌙

04/15/2026

Allow space for Breath!

04/08/2026

Observing yourself

One of the most powerful shifts we can make is learning to observe ourselves. Take a step back and look at what you're feeling, how you move, how you act.

Not to judge.
Not to fix.
Just to notice.

How am I showing up right now?
How am I moving through this moment?
What am I asking my body to carry?

When I began observing myself this way, I noticed patterns I hadn’t seen before.
Places I was rushing.
Places I was holding.
Places I needed more support.

Awareness creates space.
And space allows something new to emerge.

If you pause today, even briefly, and observe yourself with kindness — that is already meaningful work.

03/25/2026

Keeping it basic

There are seasons when the noise feels louder than usual.

External messages. Expectations. Opinions about how we should move, work, respond, decide. I notice how easily the body tightens when I try to hold all of it.

Lately, I’ve been returning to something simple:
Filtering what comes in.
Coming back to what is here.
A pause.
A breath.
A quiet scan of the body.

Where am I holding tension?
What am I actually feeling?
What feels centered — and what doesn’t?

Presence doesn’t arrive through effort.
It arrives through noticing.

Place one hand on your body, and simply observe: what is already there.
No fixing.
No adjusting.
Just being with yourself.

If you’d like to explore this more deeply, I wrote a reflection on keeping things simple.
Read the full piece — link in bio.

02/24/2026

Living Between Worlds: Where Is Home?

I’ve lived much of my life with one foot in Norway, and one in the United States.
Two different cultures. Two very different rhythms.
And over time, they’ve both shaped me in ways I’m still unfolding.

Norway gave me stillness.
The kind of quiet that isn’t uncomfortable — just present.
There, I learned how to slow down, to trust the unsaid, to let simplicity be enough.

The U.S. gave me movement.
Energy.
A sense of possibility.
But also… urgency. The pressure to always do, become, achieve.

Living between these two places has taught me how to hold paradox.
To slow down without disappearing.
To move forward without disconnecting.
To make space for both clarity and complexity.

This is the lens I bring into the work I do — a spacious, human approach that doesn’t ask you to pick a side, but invites you to integrate who you are.

You don’t have to belong to one world.
You can make a life that honors all of you.

What have your places — your landscapes, your cultures — taught you about belonging?

Read the full blog on my website - link in bio!

02/18/2026