My Soul Sister and co-coach Dani Nelson of Life Unconstrained shared some brilliance (as usual) in her weekly newsletter. But this one bit was just too juicy not to share. I know I’ve written a lot about self-stories, and how they can be limiting (I promise, sometime in the not too distant future, we’ll talk about self stories… Read More
This amazing quote came to me today, from a visit to the Road Less Traveled, (quote attribution Unknown, I tried to look it up– if you know, leave it in the comments please!!) I found the artist! Kristen Jongen Oh my. Such resonance for me. I wrote this long ago on my other blog: “I came apart… Read More
Smack dab in the middle of the roar of real life, it is often hard to hear our own voices, tend to our own needs, treat ourselves with the generosity we extend toward others…. There is work to do, as there almost always is… and while there’s work that needs to be done for other… Read More
Most of us carry self stories, and most of the stories, I’ve found, are inherently limiting in nature. We rarely have self stories about our expansiveness, our amazing gifts, our flexibility, our resilience, our capacity for wonder, our ability to connect, our immense love, or graciousness… Usually they are about roles, sometimes about capabilities, and… Read More
So these questions of identity have sort of lead me to think about when I was little. Most career books or counselors ask us to go back and resurrect our fundamental passions and beliefs to try to regain that innocent connection to our true selves. The question is usually something like this: When you were… Read More
My dear friend Eric commented on my previous post: “… I would like you to talk more about fiction. The stories we tell about ourselves play a huge role in determining the courses of our lives whether you regard the stories as fiction or not. I’ve been having conversations about this topic within my family. Some… Read More
