Recently I’ve heard a lot about the different ways that people deal with emotional situations and the truth and change. It seems that, while change is inevitable and healthy, people are afraid of it and want to avoid it, postpone it, or ignore it, sometimes at all costs. And this interferes with the truth and…
Strong emotions cause strong reactions. And for some reason, we seem to think that they are similar to diseases or illness and that we should do something to remedy them whether they are happening to us or to someone around us. The urge to help, to console or to remediate things is natural and many…
Very few people manage to be islands of isolation. It takes a great deal of personal effort, skill, and geography to pull that off. Not just because you need to be able to live off the grid, live off the land, and be fully self-sufficient in everything you could possibly need, but because we are…
I saw a tattoo today that was drawn to appear as if the skin were peeling away from a woman’s shoulder and underneath were written words. And it really looked like her story was written under her skin. We are the stories we tell ourselves, not just the stories we tell to each other. We…
My friends and I sometimes joke about the men in our lives and how they measure on the present scale. You know, for a holiday do they get you a power tool that is something they actually want, do they forget altogether, do they get something that makes no sense, do they do a ‘Hail…
Life is a daily delight/onslaught of input. From the time we awake to the time we sleep our senses intake information at a high rate of speed. And our brains seek to make meaning from it and to navigate it using the maps of relationships, needs, wants, requirements, and survival to build it into something…
Nothing is more heart wrenching than leaving something undone until it is too late. If there is something you really want to do, don’t worry about what other people will think, don’t worry about how to get it done, get rid of the box you’ve been thinking in and go out and do it. 10…
Clients I work with all want to know, “What’s my purpose in life?” and “Why am I here?”. Sometimes the answers are really exciting and ‘sexy’ like, “You’re here to help heal small children” or “You’re here to learn this major lesson about love and family” or “You’re here to work in foreign countries bringing…
In writing about sacred space, I’ve been thinking about religious spaces. And there are a lot of religious spaces to consider. Just the number of temples in India boggles the mind, let alone the shrines, ashrams, and wandering mystics. Or think about the number of churches in the Bible Belt in the states. Heck, where…
I hear people talk about listening being an art form or a lost art. *sigh* I don’t actually see it as an art so much as a necessity of life. Kinda like looking where you walk. You can not do that and stub your toe, fall and break a bone, go off steep cliffs and…