{"id":44,"date":"2026-07-19T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fieldnotes2126.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:20:59","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Notes On Being Human"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What breaks does not stay broken.
Brightness survives shattered stars.
God shut his eyes for a moment,
but that distance is just
the long way back to being held.
Keep faith with all that matters.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My name is Kristen Holmes. I study the interrelationships between body and mind for a living. One thing I’ve learned: long before physiology becomes data, it is experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a notebook of those experiences. The ones common to all of us: grief, love, heartache, hope. Small moments gathered from daily life, sketches made in passing, paintings I’ve wrestled with for days or weeks, and passages from others that send me down a rabbit hole of contemplation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve spent over three decades inside high-stakes performance environments, as an athlete, a coach, and now a scientist…testing what the body’s signals mean and whether they can be trusted. They can. The same physiological grammar that shapes an Olympian’s readiness shapes a parent of three’s. This notebook is where that conviction meets the smaller, stranger evidence: a deer, a poem, a line that stops me in my tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each note begins with attention. Then comes reflection through the lens of psychophysiology. The rhythms of the nervous system, the biology of emotion, the patterns that shape how we inhabit the world. Finally, the observation becomes something else: a poem, an essay, a drawing, a fragment of prose. What I’ve come to realize is that this practice is not a project for me. It is the ongoing work of a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New field notes and writings arrive roughly weekly. Get them by email. I hope you’ll wander in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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