I’ve always felt I should know my Calling. My True Work. My Passion. My Purpose. I looked at all of these things as just different ways of identifying some core Truth just waiting to be seen, some inherent compass point, some something that would allow me to navigate more easily through opportunities, decisions, relationships, and… Read More
Sometimes when you’re in the thick of it, a voice whispers something important. Something that changes everything about how you interpret your experience. These past few weeks have held several of these moments for me. A newsletter I get from Jen Louden about self trust— it brought a reframing of the act of labeling our… Read More
I did a meditation years ago based on some reading I’d been doing (Feeding Your Demons by Tsultrim Allione), and up came some highly anthropomorphized animal manifestations of my “demons”–my critics, my derailing cautionary babblers, my fears…. and, to honor them, I searched for totems… in so doing, I stumbled across the stupendously fabulous animal… Read More
More than a few nuggets of awesomeness in this recent TED talk given by the amazing Brene Brown: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html Share This:
I’ve been hearing a recurring message in my wanderings that I want to share with you. It feels *so true*. It began, for me, a while back via a book called Feeding Your Demons. It included envisioning your demons– seeing them for their true selves, and asking questions of them (what do you need?). The… Read More
I swear today was metaphoric. My computer crashed, and it has been crashing more often. It is a mac, so this whole thing is weird and unexpected. So I backed it up on a new external drive, and set about defragging the hard drive. As I watched the perhaps completely BS graphical representation of the… 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
