Some relationships are toxic. This is not to blame the other person or people involved, it’s not to say that the choices that got everyone there were wrong or mistaken, nor that the actions were either. However you got there, the relationship brings out the worst results for your and possibly for everyone, and nothing…
Yesterday I finished up lesson 6 of the class I will be offering through DailyOm.com. This lesson was on interacting with your Soul Book and it’s always good to write about these things because it forces you to really look deeply and be clear about what you are doing and why so you can present…
It’s cliché but also most true that doctors make the worst patients, mechanics drive broken down cars, and those that clean house usually come home to a mess. What we do for others we rarely do for ourselves. I’m one of those. Don’t do as I do, do as I say, so the saying goes. …
Sometimes the unexpected is a good thing. Somewhere along the line being nice got trampled under the feet of being efficient and being polite became a license for everyone to abuse you. “The customer is always right” became “the customer has the right to treat you like crap” and so most people wear armor when…
Have you ever noticed that Forgiveness is something that gets talked about in Hallmark card terminology? It’s almost always something we should have or should practice, comes with graphics of flowers or butterflies, and promises to be the answer to issues where harm has been done. It’s like making closure when there is no closure…
I like to think of life as communication. It is all one grand communication between ourselves and everything else. An intricate web of doingness to which we are all acting and responding every second of every day. We are part of it, creating it as we go along. And what I find lovely is that…
How much do other’s expectations of you drive your life? Have you ever stopped to look at that? Very few of us live a life where we don’t care about anyone else’s opinion, even if we don’t do what they want us to do. We are social animals and we live in an interconnected world…
I could be wrong, but I believe that one point or another in all of our lives, we have felt that we weren’t good enough. Not sure about psychopaths and narcissists, but possibly even them. And the measuring stick that we beat ourselves with seems to be, “Everyone else is better than me, even the…
Every human being is a complex and unique individual. Full of experience, education, nurturing and neglect, thoughts and ideas, creativity and passion, let alone the capacity for living a fully integrated life in a Universe that is astoundingly diverse and infinitely variable. When I start working with someone I listen to their plans, their needs,…
It is a very historically recent event that human beings feel that they are seperate from nature or the world and can somehow control it. That they have the right to safety and peace in their lives and that anything disturbing this is an intrusion or an assault. But this is all an illusion. We…