PERSPECTIVES: THE BLOG
Why is it so hard to let go of some relationships? Do we feel like we won’t be whole without the other person in our lives? Perhaps we are concerned what others will think of us if we walk away? Maybe we think we are not capable without the other person and we need them to…
Growing up with parents who were children of the 1920’s depression era taught me that money didn’t grow on trees, was hard to come by, took incredibly hard work to attain, could be taken away in the blink of an eye, and that only a few lucky ones ever ‘made’ it financially...
Why is it, we don’t typically think of ourselves as multi-dimensional beings? What I mean by multi-dimensional, is that we exist in more than just this external physical experience of the 3rd dimension where rocks are hard, and water is wet ‘…’
What is it that keeps us stuck with choices we don’t want? We mull the unresolved situation over and over again in our minds, yet we still can’t find a way out of our choiceless dilemma‘…’
Why has it been so difficult to feel fully sovereign in our lives? I don’t mean sovereign politically, I mean individually, as a fully empowered human being, at choice in each moment and responding from that sovereign place inside
Do you believe that you can fulfill your dreams? Is it OK that you have a certain dream? Is the dream 'too big' for you to imagine it actually happening? Is there a dream from long ago still alive within you....
So many of us have learned that the feelings we experience (emotions and related physical sensations and expressions), are a problem and can keep us from having what we want.
Why do we find ourselves having an unhealthy relationship with disappointment? We do everything we can to avoid feeling it. We work hard to protect our children from it, and we don’t want others feeling it about us, or anything we are part of‘…’
What is it that drives us to be available to everyone else instead of ourselves? The parent who cancels their yoga class to do one more carpool that day‘…’
Why do we feel that a certain level of suffering is required before we ask for what we want? Many of us feel that the suffering has to be enormous before we ask for assistance or say no to another ‘to do’‘…’
Do you believe that others will change in ways that will make you feel better? Do you hold out hope, even when the other person's behavior isn't fundamentally different? Perhaps you look for the tiniest shred of evidence that something has changed, and then hang onto that for days, weeks, months or even years?
Why is so hard to take care of ourselves when we get what we don’t want - an experience, a conversation, or a situation that we didn’t ask for, invite, or desire in any way...
