Words for Hard Times
Good morning. I’ve had a little bit of a crazy week, with a very intense back and forth trip from San Francisco to Phoenix on Sunday. I haven’t quite recalibrated, caught up on sleep, or found my writing self again. How are you doing this week? I feel out of touch! This morning I have [...]
In case you’ve forgotten, I just wanted to remind you of something important. I needed to be reminded about it, and I have a feeling you do too. A few weeks ago I was having coffee with a friend. I hadn’t seen her in months, but she’d been receiving my email newsletter so she had [...]
What would it look like to create your life around these four questions: What do I love? Who do I love? What do I need to take care of myself? What contribution do I want to make? What if it’s a simple as this? What do I love? What activities give me joy? What [...]
For me, the process of transformation often begins with pain – a pain that grows in its intensity until it is great enough that I have to look at it and face its causes. One of the greatest tragedies of our culture is that we look at emotional pain–and its manifestations of depression, fatigue, apathy, [...]
In 12 Step recovery programs, the first step is “admitting you have a problem.” I want to change their language a bit. I want to ask you to have the courage to admit something in your life that isn’t working. To admit an area of your life where you aren’t satisfied, where your life is [...]
This is a forgiveness meditation I recently wrote. Its about forgiving others and ourselves. *** You deserve more, more joy and satisfaction and moments of peace. And in order to have all of that, you need to become less, to release the burdens you carry. Not the rent or your mother’s illness [...]
For just a few moments, leave your day-to-day identity behind, and follow me into the sphere of imagination. Imagine yourself looking down upon a great open expanse of land. See its golden reeds, the green hills in the distance, and the blue sky beyond. See the cloud wisps slowly shifting above. Upon the land, in [...]
I was recently talking with a friend whose life circumstances had thrown him into a deep panic. His business went unexpectedly into crisis with some abrupt departures of managers and lost contracts. I could see that some unexpected events had thrown things in his life very off-plan, and that this resulted a number of [...]
