“If we don’t reconcile our stories, they will absolutely define us.”
-Miles Adcox
Happy Thursday!
Today’s episode is near and dear to my heart, perhaps because it’s personal.
Life is absolutely full of light and dark, good and bad, ups and downs—all kinds of colorful seasons. Something I love about the passage of time is we get to see many of the complex questions of yesterday make a bit more sense in our today.
Read More“Humans are the only beings that have the agency to mask their identities. Our goal is to become the true self.”
-Ian Cron
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
-Rumi
Despite the evil display of hate crimes and bigotry in Charlottesville this past week, I’m still convinced we live in a loving universe.
Wait, before you look away in discomfort or write this post off as a political rant, stay with me.
We’re not going there today.
Read More“Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck.”
Sheryl Sandberg
I recently attended an all-day workshop led by David Kessler, self-help author and grief guru. He is most well known for his groundbreaking work with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist who pioneered what we know as hospice care as well as the Kubler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance).
Read MoreI’m beyond excited to share today’s podcast interview with you. Several weeks back, I sat down with Matthew Perryman Jones, one of the most truly gifted artists I know. As happens every time we connect, our conversation trailed off into distant fascinating lands and two and a half hours later, time’s up and I realize I’ve got some serious editing to do (which was really hard because every bit of our conversation was so valuable!)
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