Alixa Doom

Alixa Doom also writes poetry, and her chapbook, Cedar Crossings, was awarded the Blue Light Poetry Prize and published in the spring of 2010. She has completed two book manuscripts, one of poems and one a memoir. After retirement from her work at the hospital, she moved from her home of many years in the Minnesota River Valley to South Minneapolis, where she is a member of Common Ground Meditation Center.

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The No-Escape Button

Rather than try to escape from painful feelings, Alixa Doom started practicing tonglen at her job at a psychiatric hospital.