I’m talking about real beauty – the kind that shines through you no matter what your hair looks like, no matter how much you ate last night or all week, no matter what you’re wearing. I’m talking about that quality that attracts the people you…
Below is a video about a group of indigenous women who decided to don climbing equipment, wearing their traditional clothes, and climb the Andes. Their children, their husbands, their friends all thought they were crazy. That they needed protecting. That their safety needed to come…
Sometimes we are faced with a hard decision. You know, those times when we need to make a decision about something we don’t want to deal with. Because the situation sucks, or there’s no great answer, or because whatever we decide will make us the…
“No bumping, no learning” This quote, from a Gestalt Therapist whose name I don’t recall, really sums it up. It may seem trite to say so, and yet, after coming through the struggle successfully, it’s clear as day that I couldn’t have grown without it.…
I was preparing for a talk on a difficult subject, and because I was nervous, started coming up with a bunch of worst-case what-ifs; so much so that I began to believe those were the only alternatives. You can guess how that talk went: I…
I sat listening to a friend who has gone through what he undramatically called “the worst year of his life”, and then to another friend who had slipped into a deep depression. As their stories unfolded, it seemed that, by telling their story to others…