Mean, Inside or Out?
“Why are people so mean?” These words came from a young woman during a recent session. Her voice shook. It opened up a door at the base of my belly, releasing a noxious stream of memories: being ignored, betrayed, disregarded, disrespected, abused. I knew the answer. It could roll off my tongue…
Brilliance
I’ve been feeling crappy for a few years now. Admittedly, my version of crappy is probably pretty good for the average person. But I don’t live an average life. The noticeable dip in my energy, stamina, excitement, creativity and overall juiciness has been wreaking some havoc with my big and grand to-do’s. …
Where Expression and Compassion Meet
There’s a lot of talk in the self-development word about authenticity. It seems to be the buzzword that everyone’s after. Complete self-expression is my version of authenticity, and has been the theme of my adult life. It was a response to my silence as a young person, deathly afraid of speaking for my first…
Thailand Tales II – Befriending the Dragon (or Better Out Than In)
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the fullest. ~Marcel Proust It wasn’t long after my daughter was born that one of her superpowers was revealed. Her body had the uncanny ability to reject (sometimes violently) what it did not want. This resulted in an enormous number of outfit…
I Don’t Wanna!
“The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.” ~ Stephen R. Covey from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Resistance is a bear, my friends. (Another B-word came to mind but I decided to keep it clean.) One…
The Answer to ‘Why Me?’
I belong to many online writer’s groups, but hardly participate in most of them. I decided to do some culling. To streamline (again) what’s coming into my inbox every day and remove myself from the information streams in which the material doesn’t add to my life. I went on one of the sites in question,…
I Am…
I am… I am crazy, funny I wonder about the future I hear the whispers in the winds I see the mermaids tail swooshing in the water I want to be happy I am crazy, funny I pretend to be a wizard I feel the unicorn’s horn brush my back I touch my dreams…
The Gift of Confusion
No one likes to be confused. (I took a poll… it’s unanimous.) A very famous motivational speaker and teacher would have his large audiences clap vigorously whenever someone said the words, “I am confused.” It was confusing. Eventually, I (and the rest of the observers to his life-changing methods) figured out that the state of…
Perspective
Perspective is life changing. It’s in my core beliefs here, and I write about it here and here. That lesson is perhaps one of the most consistent aspects of my life. It reappeared just recently as I sat on a cross country flight in front of a little boy who was having a hard time.…
What We See: A Practice in Choosing
My daughter is messy. Very messy. It never crosses her mind to pick up the clothes she flings on the floor, to put away her plate or cup, or to clean off her desk so there’s actually a usable surface. We live in a small space so everything is amplified, and minor messes become unmanageable…