It's a lazy post-gorging tryptophan-sleepy kind of day. And I want to say something about "The Holidays". Which is that you have a choice about how you do them. I know a lot of people don't like "The Holidays". They get depressed, or overwhelmed, or burned out, or just hate the whole thing. I get it. I have my share … [Read more...]
When You Are Stuck: Transformation Starts With Acceptance
All emotional suffering and stuckness is caused by closing down and contracting around pain. Pain happens, and change happens - this is the nature of life. However, suffering is an add-on that we create through our reaction to that pain and change. Healing is the process of grieving and accepting this pain and change, … [Read more...]
Creative Freedom and Security Are Not In Opposition
This is a common story: a skilled artist or creative decides to become a designer because there is more job security. Or a lawyer. They never really develop their creative talent and feel unfulfilled. Or the other side: a skilled artist decides to work at a cafe to have free time/brain-space to pursue art. They never … [Read more...]
The Art of Deep Transitions
Completing a major project (or job, or other major part of your life) and letting yourself move on involves: recognizing that you are "done" giving yourself permission to be "done" actually completing the thing When and why is it hard to recognize and accept when you are done? If you think you ought to not be … [Read more...]
Back to Basics: Feel Your Feelings
It always surprises me when I realize I've forgotten something rather basic and have to relearn it. Over and over and over again. Feel your feelings. All of them. All of them, feel them, as much of the time as you can. But, don't identify with them. Don't loop around in thoughts that make them worse. They are … [Read more...]
When Comments Bring Up Your Stuff
I've gone through a long process healing my relationship with comments, and I want to describe it because I'm guessing it's something others go through. Fear and anticipation, approval and validation When I first started blogging four years ago, I didn't have online buddies, I didn't have Twitter, and consequently I … [Read more...]
Does God matter? How to listen to the subtle harmony of life.
This is how I define God: a felt sense of the interconnectedness of everything to everything else, and the subtle harmony that runs through it all. And the "felt" part is what I want to talk about here. Things are interconnected whether you feel it or not. And that field of interconnectivity is there whether you sense it … [Read more...]
You Don’t Have to Be Epic
This is a comment on Charlie's post Do Epic Shit. (Note: I'm not disagreeing with the post, I'm just adding another voice. Different people need different messages.) I write periodically about the machine we call the education system and how it breaks many of us in one way or another such that we need to work hard to … [Read more...]
Affirming Multiple Interests Rather Than Searching for the “One True Passion”
I've been going through my books as part of a de-cluttering jag. I found this one - which I loved when I read it and I now think I need to re-read. It's called The Renaissance Soul "Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One". Does the thing you are doing, even though you enjoy it, never feel like … [Read more...]
Popularity vs. Purpose: Following Your Internal Nudges
I've just had a revelation. I've been feeling all BLAH about this blog, and about writing in general, and trying to figure out why do I write anyway. I think what happened is I briefly got caught up in the whole blogging-twittering-"internet famous"-popularity-contest aspect of blogging. Which can be fun and all (I … [Read more...]
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