How to Set a Boundary and How to Respond when Someone Else Set’s One
a short, six min video with some helpful tips on boundary setting
To the Guarded Hearts Out There..
If you don’t get a handle on some of your core relationship strategies such as the maze you’ve created to allow people into your heart, you’ll continue to drive people away. Some of us don’t want to work that hard to reach you. And, that might be what you need to do until you’re in…
Shame
Shame is a brilliant human emotion. It’s designed to help us feel like shit so we do something about it. Our problem is we add shame on top of the shame pile. But shame in it’s purest, most raw form is exquisite in its teaching. Very precise, very simple, very direct. Grateful for shame today.…
Being Our Authentic Self
If our claim is that we are about being totally, authentically who we are, then we need to see all the places, and ways in which, we are afraid to live it. If we examine ourselves closely most of us are not living very authentically. We are living someone else’s dream in someone else’s value…
The Future of Spiritual Practice & Healing Work
As I’ve written about before relationship has been one of the weak muscles of the spiritual practitioner.
The Cost of Overpraising Kids
Some praise is fine. Too much praise for kids however, and we open the door to zombie-land.
Shame And The Power of Community
shaming the shamer doesn’t work. Not only that, but shame and humiliation bring us back home to who we are.
Householder: Chop Wood Carry Water
This one just came out of me after a typical “day in the life.” Chop wood carry water Prepare to burn Marry Sex Grow Have a kid Grow more Laugh, cry, rage Poo Clean up poo
