Living More Authentically
I was thinking about people-pleasing the other day – why we do it and why it’s so hard to stop. (I think about people-pleasing often, since I struggle with it and am trying to people-please less.) The thought occurred to me that maybe people-pleasing is a kind of substitute, a kind of crutch that we [...]
Today is part four of Wise Living’s series on Slog vs. Leap Challenges. If you didn’t read the previous posts, click here to get oriented to slogs and leaps, and to what this series is all about. Today, you’ll hear from writer Ali Hale about her slog and leap challenges, and what’s she’s learned about [...]
Today is part three of Wise Living’s four-part series on Slog vs. Leap Challenges. If you haven’t been following the series, you might want to start with this post; it will tell you what the heck we mean by “slogs” and “leaps.” Today, we have the privilege of hearing from Judy Hamilton. Judy is the [...]
In April, I wrote an article for The Change Blog that struck a chord with many readers. The article was about a pattern I had started to see – in my own life, in my friends’ and clients’ lives, about challenges. We were valorizing and glamorizing challenge – assuming that tough challenges were good for [...]
I’ve often been struck by the idea that all the suffering in the world, all the world’s problems and deficits and cruelties are exactly equal in might and force to the love, the gifts, the talents, latent in all the world’s inhabitants. In this way, the world is perfectly balanced: The sum of global pain [...]
Hi there, I’m so happy to welcome new visitors and readers who read yesterday’s guest post at Kind Over Matter. I love the spirit, community, and vision of Kind Over Matter. I love the idea that through the work I do I just might be able to support creative young women (which much of the [...]
A couple of years ago I found myself asking, again and again, “Is this all there is?” The question popped up in quiet moments, in the spaces in between to do lists and tasks. This question is a cliche, but more importantly, I’ve learned, its a sacred door opening. It shows up when something inside [...]
I’m writing from a sunny, beautiful, paradise place where I’m so thrilled to be spending a week. It’s fascinating to me that it actually is easier for me to slow down and be present in this environment. I feel it when I have the impulse to leave myself, or leave the moment, and I have [...]
Today I’m very pleased to have my first ever interview at Wise Living! Jen Smith is a life coach and personal development blogger, and she’s based in England. I encounter so many blogs and writers online these days, but Jen’s energy really stood out for me. I could feel her kindness and integrity popping off [...]
When you are motivated by fear, you move through life propelled by what you don’t want. Fear of not having a job. Fear of being fat. Fear of being rejected. You spend as much time in worry as in action. You’ve sentenced yourself to rains of unpleasant fear-thinking. Your consciousness is centered in what you [...]
