Practicing With Pain

If the pain is going to be there either way, why would I choose to feel it? If I feel it, I can actually heal it. If I don’t feel it, I can not know its true state, and I can not start to heal it. Whether I like it or not, feeling my pain fully is necessary for...

The Thing That Means SO MUCH

A Calling I’ve always wanted to — and knew I needed to — WRITE a BOOK. If I knew anything about myself, I KNEW this. And this KNOWING was so powerful that it became incredibly painful. Resistance But I didn’t know how, so I tried to escape from IT. The...

Paralyzing Thinking

What stops you dead in your tracks? One thing that stops me is thinking about my performance. Whether it is before, during, or after an action in which I want to perform and do it well, thinking about my performance paralyzes me. For what I am really doing in that...

Our Inner Critic

A reflection of our disdain for authority in our own life.

The things our critic says are likely things we heard from an authority figure.

Things we did not agree with — but heard anyway.

Things that once were someone else’s ideas about us, that have now become our own.