We are wired for advancement. Staying stuck in the same thinking, that creates the same outcomes, does not lead to sustainable change. Discomfort is a function of existence. It gets our attention. We grow each time we move toward it.
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fresh.
Fresh and New. Fresh and new. fresh and new. (capitals make me crazy…and commas,…,…,…,) April blog. New theme. In December, I decided I was going to create an online course every month. I also chose themes for each month based on the first thought I had about the time of year. I like ‘fresh and…
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The following is taken from the online course, Anticipation… I went to my first yoga class at a 24- hour fitness studio. Ellen. She was the teacher. Not that Ellen. Another Ellen. She had full classes on Sunday mornings. Thinking back, I’m surprised I kept going. I didn’t know anything about yoga. It was a…
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I just did this again yesterday as I was thinking about today’s blog. It’s easy to get stuck on what you don’t want. The only reason we don’t want anything is because there is a something more, the opposite – what we do want. When we can catch this, we can choose to focus on what we do want. In the physical isolation segment of this current living situation, it may be clear that one of your values is freedom. What story do you tell about your own freedom?
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Well-being is an experience. Knowing one’s personal felt experience and the results that come when practicing skills, tools, and strategies is one thing; transferring that experience in a way that engages others with something that is relevant and easy to understand and apply, can be a bit of a challenge.
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If you are like me, you may consider life’s non preferred situations, circumstances, and events to be quite the bother, inconvenient at best.
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When I used to catch myself wildly spinning on the inside, I would act as if I was my own defibrillator to disrupt the crazy. I’d get my attention by stating my name loudly and firmly: Sally. And then, when I’d get myself to stop for a second, I’d say assertively: slowthefuckdown. A visual would…
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creativity is intelligence having fun. Albert Einstein If you read the post I shared on 12/31/19, you may have resonated with the idea of how growing the innate skill of self-awareness can help you recognize the story you are telling. If the storyline or theme is one of lack or limitation, you have an opportunity…
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If you have read a previous blog post of mine, or if you pay attention to any sort of life-coachey, personal growth content, you may be somewhat familiar with the concept of one’s ‘state’ – state of mind, state of being, mood or attitude. Being curious about developing the skill of self-awareness can support a…
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soften
A few months back I found myself on a massage table with a gifted practicioner. And by gifted, I mean otherworldly – heat emanating through the center of her hands.
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day. 