I’m aware that — against my usual habits — I had a cup of coffee this morning. My mental state and thoughts are probably more agitated as a result. All the same, since I had some similar thoughts already yesterday, I feel comfortable pinning some of them down… It occurred to me that the difference… Continue reading Woke Signaling
Category: Pain
Jazz-tune Yourself
At first I wanted to title this post simply “Tune Yourself”. Then I realized that is insufficient. Tuning can mean a lot of things. Generally speaking, I assume it refers to an increase of performance. It suggests fiddling or adjusting with some inner parameters. The reason I changed it to “Jazz-tune Yourself” gets at the… Continue reading Jazz-tune Yourself
Accepting the Sting
My ideas are still very much in flux, and I feel that writing about this topic is probably the best way for me to sort through a messy tangle of thoughts. So, please take this post as coming from a fairly experimental place. During the COVID pandemic, I have often heard: “Trust the science!” Unfortunately,… Continue reading Accepting the Sting
“Shut Up and Dance!”
My intention with this post is to provide both a perspective and to communicate my intuition for why holding this perspective can be hugely beneficial in situations where I experience a discrepancy between is and ought, or rather reality as it happens to be and my expectations of or desired outcome for reality. The perspective… Continue reading “Shut Up and Dance!”
Wanting, Liking, and Loving
The other day, I was on a weekly call with three other people I am taking an online course with. Going through this experience together, I sense that we have become really good friends. I expressed to them my anxiety about everything that could go wrong with the apartment my husband and I are about… Continue reading Wanting, Liking, and Loving
A Coach as People Gardener
I have had many conversations with a lot of different individuals throughout my life. And I have come to realize the great potential that lies in this format—both as the person providing some exploratory space as well as being the one who is given the space to explore. Over the past few months, my desire… Continue reading A Coach as People Gardener
Trauma and Love
I’m sure that a lot of people have written about this—much more intelligently than me, I guess. The reason to write this post is that as I was having the image I will describe in a moment come to mind, I felt a powerful sense of “Yes, that’s it!” And if you enjoy it even… Continue reading Trauma and Love