Finally on my way to say yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the unattended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into my skin, my bones, those coded messages that send me down the wrong street again and again where I find …
‘Integrity means a state of honesty and wholeness. Honesty is a key element in psychotherapy. Being honest with ourselves means to face the facts of our experience – to be willing to feel what we are feeling, sense what we are sensing and question all of our cherished beliefs. (…) This means that we stop …
‘To listen is to lean in softly With the willingness to be changed by what we hear.’ Mark Nepo In a way listening is quite a vulnerable position. It requires us to stop planning what we’re going to say or managing what the other person’s saying. It requires openness to receive our own response …
‘ Everything and everyone we see, we view through the lenses of our thoughts. Your mind is where your thoughts arise and form. It is not simply with your eyes but with your mind that you see the world. So much depends on your mind: How you see yourself, who you think you are, how …
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“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals of gentle parenting. …
Enjoy Roger Keyes’ poem: Hokusai says Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He says there is no end to seeing He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. He says get stuck, accept it, repeat …
Dalai Lama was being interviewed about his book ‘The Art of Happiness’. He was asked if he had any experiences of guilt or remorse. After a pause he answered: guilt no but remorse maybe. He told a story when an elderly monk asked him about doing some yoga exercises that were designed for young people. …
What are you unwilling to feel? A gentle inquiry into what we are unwilling to feel may be very useful. You have probably heard the phrase that ‘what you resist persists’. Carl Gustav Jung added: “What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” How so? What we pull away from sticks. Maybe …
Whatever has been unseen, unmet, unloved arises in order to be seen, met loved, and liberated within ourselves and within life. How do you meet yourself – do you see pathology that needs fixing or can you see the innocence of the so called pathological states at their inception. What would it feel like to …
‘Imagine you are a pebble thrown into a body of water.. Effortlessly, you as the stone sink through the turbulent surface waters…. Unattached to anything, you fall until you find a perfect rest at the stillness of the bottom Having let go of everything worrisome, you are now not pulled or pushed by anything, and …
