Talking to ourselves is normal, getting an answer means it’s time to check in to the hotel where everyone wear’s white and you are strapped into the bed. However, what people don’t realize is that listening to what you are saying and how you are saying it is very important and can lead to some…
Our lives are made of the stories we tell about ourselves and the world. This was brought home to me in a dramatic way one day in college. My school had the ‘publish or perish’ rule for its professors so they were constantly researching something. This could be alot of fun for the students such…
I love the colors of Fall. The trees changing colors, sometimes so saturated that they seem to glow from within. Trees in a row up and down the street slowing changing from summer’s green to yellow and orange and red and rust and even reddish-purple. And not just trees. Some ivy’s also change color and…
I love me a good Zombie story. Whether it’s a movie, a TV show, a book or a graphic novel, Zombies are awesome. There are even some good Zombie music videos out there, just check YouTube. 🙂 However, Zombies do exist in the real world and it’s something to keep an eye out for. Zombies…
What if your life were not a linear progression? What if time and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing weren’t guiding factor of your life? What would it look like? Western culture teaches us the importance of time, the finiteness of life, and that everything is cause and effect in…
There is an exercise I like to use with my students to help them understand physically what I mean by the limitations our culture has taught us. It helps them become aware that they can do much more than they ever thought possible. I call it “Extending Your Senses” and it’s completely safe to try…
I love October for so many reasons, but Halloween is definitely at the top of the list. I love decorating for it, I love the creativity of it, I love sharing ideas about food, decorations, costumes with people, and scary is delicious when it’s just for fun. I decorate my front yard with headstones to…
I always find it interesting when someone tells me, “I’ve never seen that side of you before”. Or they say “My life is just such a bunch of contradictions”. Our minds what to analyze and organize what it perceives into a system that makes sense so it can manage the chaos of all the input…
A trigger is something that just makes you absolutely crazy every time it appears or occurs. It’s not due to something happening in the moment, but something that has happened before and that hasn’t been resolved. Like an absolute gag reflex to even a mention of peppermint schnapps because you got drunk and threw up…
So while you are trying to find yourself, figuring out what you want to be when you grow up, bemoaning the fate that has brought you to this place in this time, trying to figure out ‘why you’ take a look at who you are in the world right now. Don’t just do something, stand…