What is it that keeps us from setting healthy limits and boundaries with others? Is it that we don’t know when someone has crossed the line…
What beliefs do you hold around 'responsibility'? Does responsibility mean duty and obligation? Are only 'adults' responsible? Is responsibility a burden? An honor? Are we only honorable when we take responsibility? Do you feel satisfaction after doing something 'responsible’? Does it make you a good person when you 'take responsibility' for others?
What if what we wanted had nothing to do with anyone else? We live on a planet with 7 billion people so that concept may be hard to understand especially when we are programmed to believe that what we want comes from others. Think of it this way, what if no one needed to do anything or be any other way for us to want what we want?
Our beliefs create our reality—literally! If we don't know which beliefs are true for us, we create our lives unconsciously not understanding why we experience life's ups and downs…
Why do we often feel we have no power when we leave a person, job or situation? When we feel the leave-taking isn’t of our own making, we can tell ourselves and others how we were no longer wanted, made wrong in our efforts, taken advantage of, misunderstood or otherwise rejected…
What do we do when we feel discarded? What is the rationale we use inside to deal with this harsh experience? We often tell ourselves that we are no longer valuable when a relationship changes shape or ends‘…’
What is the ‘juice’ that motivates us and gets us into action? Is it the passion for something we want to experience or create, or is it the fear that something will or won’t happen? Is it the excitement of being fully alive in the moment, or the avoidance of some devastating emotion?
Why is it that we struggle with our self-care? What is it that has us forget to take the vitamins, give up our sleep for one more episode, skip the walk for a little more work, eat potato chips instead of the salad, and then regret our choices at the end of the day?
Why do we feel we need to justify ourselves to others including what we want, what we say, and how we do things? Why are we somehow required to offer an explanation to others in order to do what is best for us. . .
We have been wired to move towards pleasure and away from pain, so why is it that millions of us are experiencing some kind of pain, emotionally, physically, mentally or spiritually? While life brings us many experiences, and pain is one of them, what is it that keeps us from moving through the pain and into healing rather than pain lingering in our lives ‘…’
Why do we believe the negative stories that our ego offers up every time life doesn’t go as we expect or desire? Stories like: ‘I’m not enough; There is something wrong with me; I can’t do it’. These inner stories are not true, and they generate the negative feelings we have about ourselves, others and the world. Here is the fascinating part - when we were young, these stories served a critical purpose for many of us…
Why does it feel like the world around us is getting worse? Politically, economically, environmentally, socially, so much is shifting and changing. What if the crumbling of these systems simply reflects the old breaking down while the new is emerging…