Experiencing an event or a situation for exactly what it is allows you to stay in the present. Attaching meaning to an event creates a story and can keep you feeling stuck in a thought or emotion. From childhood, a story begins to form based on things that were said to us by our parents, […]
Pema Chodron said, “Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Well, isn’t this the way […]
How is it that some can accomplish things that seem inconceivable to another? What is it that allows someone to push beyond their own boundaries to discover what they are truly capable of? When you are ignited by passion, it fuels your body, mind and spirit to act as a whole and you are exactly […]
At some point everybody has experienced hurt or betrayal at a level so profound that it left wounds. We can allow those wounds to heal or we can let them form scars. When we hold on to the things that hurt us, we prevent ourselves from fully experiencing the present and limit our prospects for […]
We’ve all been there, the alarm clock goes off and you think to yourself “do I really have to get out of bed?” It takes a few minutes, but you rationalize that it is in your best interest to start your day and get to work. What about situations where the only person you are […]
There are endless rationalizations that we can use to explain why we settle for less than what we have the capacity for. We can get into the habit of accepting less from ourselves and, in turn, start expecting less from life. It’s so easy to fall into the habit of using where we have been, […]