PERFECT HUNGER

PERFECT HUNGER

Link-Ups

The web we’re weaving together

And how we choose to show up within it

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Dr. Dana Leigh Lyons, DTCM
Mar 04, 2026
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Dearest Reader,

My intention with these monthly link-ups is to share resources that help you feel better and live more beautifully. I’d love for you to join me in:

  • stretching beyond what’s familiar yet limiting or incomplete

  • expanding our sense of what’s possible for our body-mind-spirit, our world, and our relationships

  • cultivating hunger for what leaves us feeling good—both in the moment and afterwards

I typically group the listens and reads I share here into categories that emerge organically as I sit down to arrange the links I’ve collected throughout the month.

As I began preparing today’s link-up, however, a single thread revealed itself, weaving from one piece to the next. Rather than wrestle what felt natural and alive into tidy containers, I decided to honor that thread.

What follows is more of a journey than a set of categories. It winds its way through:

  • how we co-create our web of connection

  • how this web is changing—and how we’re participating in it, within and without

  • the tension between freeing ourselves from self-censorship and not needing to perform our stance online

  • power, obedience, and disobedience—and how meaningful change takes root

  • the difference between regulating ourselves and listening deeply

All that below, and I hope you’ll pull from it what your body-mind-spirit most needs. I’d also love to hear your thoughts and what you’re reading or listening to in the comments.

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