Coaching
Your ordinary, extraordinary life
There is a form if you’d like to share on this topic below. The first part of my life, I wanted to be extraordinary. Driven by a distant…
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Tag: freedom
Quotes
What you see is what you can free
Don’t get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen
Culture
Abstinence Doesn’t Work
No one’s thrilled by the choices this upcoming election. But I don’t need thrills from my governance – that’s for reality TV. I’m writing to people not planning…
Creativity
Donut Holes & Superpowers:
probing the philosophy of nothingness in daily life How consciousness works, how it lives, dies, and transforms has been a preoccupation of mine since I was a girl…
Coaching
Idealism, burnout, and collaborative missions
I’ve needed to abruptly quit a few things in my life. And each time, my departures have left people confused. In general, I’m an upbeat worker, definitely a…
Mommess
The Upside Down of Spiritual Awakening
I used to think of spiritual awakening as a good thing: a sign that someone had accumulated enough spiritual merit to deserve to see behind the veil, and…
Coaching
Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices
My eleven year old wakes up early and likes to go on woods-walks with me most days before school. Today, we figured out when choosing between two potential…
Mommess
Matunuck
Escaping the sleepover fallouttwo extra boys. Legends lp playing then. And now too. The Digital. Quiet happy. Then. and video games. and airy mattress pushed up on it’s…
Culture
Slay the Protégé
In myth and in life, Proteges slaying Mentors is an age-old archetypal pattern, and one that represents an energetic exchange that can be uniquely helpful in a protege’s…
Body & Health
hitting the speed limit
Tomorrow I turn 55, and I kind of love this age and all it represents. This birthday reminds me of my old restaurant days when I waited tables…
Mommess
Being Right vs. Judgement
In my Buddhism practice, there is a practice statement that has been gnawing away at me. It’s phrased so benignly, but the implications have been earth-shattering for me.…
Body & Health
Practice Notes – Jan 19
I’ve been taking Buddhism classes with Jungto Society, and I love them. The classes teach about the history, the philosophy, and the principles of Buddhism, but mostly they…