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How to Know When to Keep Working or When to ...

What’s your opinion about this idea -finishing what we start versus quitting before it feels done or complete?

I had a conversation about this a while ago and am still pondering it.

Like most beliefs, this one was unconscious inside of me until I really began to unpack it. As I did, I began to see how the idea of finishing what I start, has been a big driver in my life.

It got embedded in my system when I was a teenager. I had a challenging (some might say traumatic) experience my sophomore year as a new student at boarding school, after I’d lobbied to go away. Only, a few months later, I was desperate to come home.

In my memory, I phoned home every day, begging to leave. That’s how unhappy I was. Finally, my mother told me I had to stay and “finish what I’d started.”

I resigned myself to being there and eventually graduated.

How to Know When to Keep Working or When to Pivot
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How to Live in 3 Simple Steps

I read this quote from the poet, Mary Oliver the other day:

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

I found myself thinking about her words all day, both the simplicity and the truth. Maybe that’s the power of poetry. It speaks to that part of us that can hear the simplicity of truth.

How to Live in 3 Simple Steps
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How to Effectively Deal with Collective Pain ...

Remember when Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth came out? It was in 2008! I have a distinct memory of reading that book one summer while driving around rural North Carolina. I know, random.

That book was filled with amazing insights, and if you’ve never read it, I highly recommend it. In fact, writing this now is giving me the urge to pick it back up! I know there’s more there for me.

But what I wanted to share today was an idea I learned from that book that was a major game changer for me. I’ve been sharing it recently with some of my clients which is what gave me the idea to write about it, too.

First, let’s start with a basic definition to what Eckhart Tolle refers to as the pain-body. He describes it as, “an invisible, semi-autonomous energy field of accumulated, repressed emotional pain.”

How to Effectively Deal with Collective Pain Bodies
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How to Heal the Hard Spaces

Before we dive into this topic- which is a personal fave – I want to let you know a bit about what’s up for me right now. I’m in a transition with my career track. Writing those words feels and sounds SO weird to me! Because it’s more that I’m wanting to focus my time and attention on nurturing my creativity and living more as a visual artist and writer rather than as a coach, teacher and psychotherapist.

How to Heal the Hard Spaces
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Genuine Freedom Through Forgiveness

When I was thinking about writing this blog, I was genuinely surprised by what popped into my head, but then I knew I HAD to write about it. 😆

It’s… forgiveness

Yes, I know, unexpected.

But the words I heard were, “I forgive and I set myself free.”

I think there’s so much confusion around forgiveness, and rightly so. It often gets confused with thoughts like:

If I forgive, I’m letting them off the hook

Or, if I forgive, they won’t be punished

Or, if I forgive, I have to pretend /act like nothing happened

Genuine Freedom Through Forgiveness

How to Know When to Keep Working or When to Pivot

How to Know When to Keep Working or When to Pivot

What’s your opinion about this idea -finishing what we start versus quitting before it feels done or complete?

I had a conversation about this a while ago and am still pondering it.

Like most beliefs, this one was unconscious inside of me until I really began to unpack it. As I did, I began to see how the idea of finishing what I start, has been a big driver in my life.

It got embedded in my system when I was a teenager. I had a challenging (some might say traumatic) experience my sophomore year as a new student at boarding school, after I’d lobbied to go away. Only, a few months later, I was desperate to come home.

In my memory, I phoned home every day, begging to leave. That’s how unhappy I was. Finally, my mother told me I had to stay and “finish what I’d started.”

I resigned myself to being there and eventually graduated.

How to Effectively Deal with Collective Pain Bodies

How to Effectively Deal with Collective Pain Bodies

Remember when Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth came out? It was in 2008! I have a distinct memory of reading that book one summer while driving around rural North Carolina. I know, random.

That book was filled with amazing insights, and if you’ve never read it, I highly recommend it. In fact, writing this now is giving me the urge to pick it back up! I know there’s more there for me.

But what I wanted to share today was an idea I learned from that book that was a major game changer for me. I’ve been sharing it recently with some of my clients which is what gave me the idea to write about it, too.

First, let’s start with a basic definition to what Eckhart Tolle refers to as the pain-body. He describes it as, “an invisible, semi-autonomous energy field of accumulated, repressed emotional pain.”

How to Heal the Hard Spaces

How to Heal the Hard Spaces

Before we dive into this topic- which is a personal fave – I want to let you know a bit about what’s up for me right now. I’m in a transition with my career track. Writing those words feels and sounds SO weird to me! Because it’s more that I’m wanting to focus my time and attention on nurturing my creativity and living more as a visual artist and writer rather than as a coach, teacher and psychotherapist.

Genuine Freedom Through Forgiveness

Genuine Freedom Through Forgiveness

When I was thinking about writing this blog, I was genuinely surprised by what popped into my head, but then I knew I HAD to write about it. 😆

It’s… forgiveness

Yes, I know, unexpected.

But the words I heard were, “I forgive and I set myself free.”

I think there’s so much confusion around forgiveness, and rightly so. It often gets confused with thoughts like:

If I forgive, I’m letting them off the hook

Or, if I forgive, they won’t be punished

Or, if I forgive, I have to pretend /act like nothing happened

Facing Uncertainty like a Champ

Facing Uncertainty like a Champ

SOOO glad that last email was helpful to you. 🙏🏼

I’m gonna keep going!

This week, let’s focus on freedom from uncertainty or maybe a better phrase is managing uncertainty.

I mean, let’s be honest. This is a MAJOR challenge for all of us.

When we face uncertainty, it can often cause doubt, fear, insecurity, unworthiness… and the list goes on.

And yet, life is change. Life is constant change. We see it everywhere. Leaves sprout in the spring, green in the summer, yellow in the autumn, turn brown and fall off in the winter.

We live amidst cyclical change that occurs naturally and it impacts us as well. Yet change can also feel difficult to manage. Especially when it’s unexpected or unwarranted.

So here are a few tips to help you navigate this landscape.

How to Manage Your Fear: 4 Exercises to Help

How to Manage Your Fear: 4 Exercises to Help

I’m on a roll right now, thinking about freedom, and thought that maybe for the rest of this month we could explore ways to feel more free.

The first one that came up for me (how about you?) is FEAR.

If you’re familiar with the enneagram, you’ll know that at point 6 (which is me 😊), this is our basic challenge.

In truth, it’s all of our basic challenge, maybe the flavor of it differs, yes? Because we ALL experience fear. So, the question then is, what do we do when it arises?

How to Step Into Being the Light More Easily

How to Step Into Being the Light More Easily

We’ve spent all of June basking in the light – the light of the solstice, the light within us, the light that is our true inheritance. 🌅

One of the questions I often get asked related to this, is how can I experience more of that light within me?

In previous weeks, we explored the idea of having blocks to the awareness of love’s presence. We also examined what some of those particular blocks might be, depending on our personalities. (Enneagram)

As we continue to remove these, the next step is experiencing the light in ourselves.

How to Move From Lack to Abundance

How to Move From Lack to Abundance

It’s true, we ALL suffer from feeling like there’s something missing, or we aren’t good enough, or that we’re lacking in some way…

Certainly, the human part of us can fall into this kind of thinking. Especially when we feel anxious or fearful.

I think it’s helpful to recognize that we encounter feelings of lack or not enough-ness when we either feel separate from the one-ness and disconnected from the universe, OR we identify and believe we are our self image / personality which comes with, according to Robert Holden’s new book on the Enneagram, a core sense of deficiency.

3 Ways to Connect More Fully with Mother Earth

3 Ways to Connect More Fully with Mother Earth

Having fun connecting with the Divine Feminine? Doesn’t it feel amazing?

Here’s another way to connect to that essence.

It’s our last mothering tool.

Can you guess what it is?

Yes, it’s connecting to the great goddess on which we live and get ALL of our physical sustenance and nourishment, Mother Earth.

During the Covid lockdown, I did a wonderful initiation into seeing the earth as Tara- Tara Gaia. And yet, there are countless first nations who have and continue to honor the earth as our sacred mother.