FOR YOUR CONTEMPLATION
Calling in help from our ancestors.
It’s foolish to think we’re not all connected through the earth in a space that exists beyond time.
It's impossible to be sovereign alone.
Sovereignty has nothing to do with independence. Sovereignty is indeed hugely powerful, but it requires other people in order for it to even exist.
Are you stressed out?
Did you know that the MAJORITY of the population is currently running in what is called "sympathetic dominance" which means that their sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight/freeze) is running on overdrive while the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and repair) has no energy left to do its job?
Why Shiny Object Syndrome is evidence of your genius.
Did you know that your capacity to shift on a dime like that means you are brilliant and that your brain is elastic enough to dramatically change your life in a hot millisecond, transcending all the suffering you're experiencing?
On sovereignty.
We tend to pair our existential experience and identities with that of the development of the first phase of intellectual sovereignty, but if you’re really seeking freedom, these other levels of sovereignty are important to experience, too.
No, I don't plan to scale my business.
I think what matters can't yet be measured and I don't look at ROI as a two way transaction.
Want resilience? Find resonance first.
If you had a tool that could reallocate negative energy to somewhere more productive, wouldn't you want to get mastery in using it?
Who would you need to become in order for life to feel easy?
Whether you’re willing to acknowledge this fact or not, we are emotionally driven beings. Taking action requires emotion. So don’t you think it’s about time you started paying attention to how you feel?
Finding love is not like winning the lottery.
We're inclined to think that finding love is sort of like winning the lottery. I hear my clients say all the time that there aren't enough good men or women out there, that you have to be careful about whom you invest in, that dating is so hard, yadda yadda yadda.
How to know if you have good boundaries.
Thinking that a boundary means withholding your love and putting up a protective barrier is a fallacy. You can't take away love from someone else.
Your partner is never a project.
When we see our partners or potential suitors as projects, we create the very thing we’re trying to prevent, and repel the thing we want the most in partnership.
We need one another.
My heart broke into a million pieces knowing I had hurt him while trying to protect myself. In that moment I knew I only had one choice: tell him what I was so afraid of.
Empathy is dangerous.
Are you so sensitive that you feel like you need to protect yourself from toxic people or otherwise have your feelings accommodated in order to experience connection?
Your denial is destroying the planet.
Transformation is our birthright. It is our essence. It is who we are. To be out of alignment with this reality causes destruction in our bodies and in our spirits.
It's not him; it's you.
Three places where you’re probably out of integrity and what to do about it.
Loyalty is the toxic mimic of devotion.
Loyalty is the toxic mimic of devotion, and my dear lover, we are being called to worship.
The downside to being passionate about something.
I was once reminded, as a person who cares passionately about most things I do, that We All Have an Eternity. Not everyone is going to wake up tomorrow, or even in this lifetime.
How to know if you're self-destructing.
Let go of what you think others are doing and ask yourself: am I really living my best life, or can I do better?
Embrace death in order to live courageously.
The first time I almost died was while I was river rafting down the White Salmon River in the spring of 1991. I was 9.