There is a common factor that every warrior knows about themselves and others. It is so ingrained that we think of it almost as a force of nature. It’s the need for self-preservation. People may talk about giving 100% of themselves to a project or activity, but what they actually mean is they are giving…
It’s funny how people feel the need to explain why they have spent the day the way they have. I’m not talking about those who are bragging while trying to seem not to brag. Bleh. No I mean your every day person who decides to explain why they did something other than work hard and…
A really common question is “So how do I make a living at it?” You know, this thing you like to do as a hobby or this idea of something you think you might like to do, or this idea that you have which you haven’t tried yet…that. How does someone build a sustainable business…
When I was in undergrad my friends and I had many deep discussions about religion and beliefs. Also about coffee and what was in that mystery punch and if we’d ever have peach schnaps after that one night….anyway we would talk about what tradition we were raised in or not, if we still believed in…
This morning a young man opened fire in a classroom at Umpqua Community College. This is 3 hours south of me in the town of Roseburg, Oregon. If you haven’t seen news coverage of this yet you will. 13 students are dead, they still haven’t tallied up all the wounded although several were life flighted…
Getting grounded isn’t just something your parents did to you and it’s not just about sitting out on a rock being still or calming down. Grounding is an active process, half of the equation for healers and spiritual practitioners. Without it we get sick, or overwhelmed, dealing with a host of symptoms as we get…
Playing with echoes can be fun if the call and the repeat are significantly separate from each other. You know, you say a thing and then there’s a beat before the repeat comes back. In fact cartoons use this all the time, having the character say something and expect it to be repeated but the…
Ever flinched when someone said they were just a born to help people and were constantly having to help this person or that? Along with the flinch there’s a face, either a squinched trying not to do an eye roll even though you want to or the blank “non-expression” face that is hiding the startled…
People make structure out of chaos. That’s what our highly developed brains are supposed to do. It’s our one weapon for survival in this dangerous place we call home. We have no fur to keep us warm when temperatures drop, we are slow-moving, we have no defensive weapons, we basically have our brains, opposable thumbs,…
One of the biggest blocks to setting boundaries with people is that we don’t want to get into a discussion about “Why?” Many times the whole point of the boundary is to limit certain interactions, but setting the boundary provokes the interaction we don’t want to have. What’s worse is the “Why?” questions around things…