The Imprints of Our Childhood

Today’s article was written by Change Coach Missy Maiorano God comes to you disguised as your life. —Father Richard Rohr Recently, I was asked to think of a childhood memory from my first decade of life. I was instructed not to overthink it…just to say the first thing that came to mind. And, without any difficulty, an image

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EP243: I don’t know where I’m going, but I know how to get there

Animal trackers don’t know where the animal is, but they know how to get there. They get there by following the fresh track that presents itself.  It’s immediate. There is no extensive planning or imagining future scenarios, just following what’s right here, right now. Then doing that again, and again, and again until you don’t

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Losing Interest in Thought

You can lose interest in thought. It’s really not all that difficult. You sit back in and as the formless–in and as the seat of awareness–rather than hooking into temporary forms of thought and feeling. You zoom out to notice that you’re aware of what’s rising and falling rather than zooming in on what’s rising and falling. You’re

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EP242: Beyond ADHD with Sam Led

Sam is a talented coach who supports people with ADHD. He does this from his own lifelong experience with ADHD and from his deep grounding in the health and perfection in any and all neuro-(or other)-diversities. We are not our brain patterns and each of us lives with a bodymind that operates by its own

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Welcoming or Wallowing?

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the difference between welcoming what arises and wallowing in what arises. This welcoming stuff is not a perfect science. Please keep in mind that my words I share around it are not what-to-do, but are pointing you in a general direction. A most important feature of welcoming is curiosity. Curious means

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EP241: A coaching session on feeling stuck and avoiding life

Ken says he has an avoidance problem. He feels stuck avoiding projects, work, and life in general. He talks about how much easier (albeit still painful) it is to watch YouTube than it is to do the things he knows he wants to do. He knows his mind is trying to protect him, but he

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I’ve Had the Insights, So Why Do Anxiety and Habits Remain?

My sister and I used to play with a plastic beach ball in our pool. Between the ball falling into the bristly bushes around the pool and our cat batting it around, it had some tiny holes. Air was leaking, but it was slow. There was plenty of air left for the ball to float, and even

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I Don’t Know Where I’m Going, But I Know How to Get There

I recently read The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty. Trackers find a first track that piques their interest and follow it until they can’t anymore. Sometimes they lose the track, or the track simply stops. When that happens, they find another first track and follow that one until they can’t anymore. They don’t know where

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EP239: A coaching session on having bad days

Allysen says she hates having a bad day. She feels like every day could be her last and if it is, she should feel grateful, positive and productive. Because she feels this way, when she wakes up feeling bad, her mind spirals quickly. It scrambles to change things, which always makes things worse.In this session, we

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