Blog | Dr. Amy Johnson

Regain Your Bearings

We had a nest of 6 baby bunnies in the bush outside our front door. I can’t even begin to express in words how adorable they were. Checking on these baby bunnies (from a safe distance, of course), discussing where their mother was, making bets on their birthday, provided hours of entertainment.We knew their time

EP152: What Are We Talking About Here, Anyway?

My friends Sarah and Anthony have a wonderful webinar series called Beautiful Feelings Within where they share the New Paradigm. They’d done several webinars with the two of them, and some with guests. A few webinars in, someone who was unfamiliar with this understanding but had been listening along asked, “What is this that we’re

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The Dinner Plate

In the LSBC curriculum, I ask students to imagine their psyche as a dinner plate. It used to look to me like all people were born with a clean, perfectly clear dinner plate. But little by little, life takes a toll on our plate. You get teased or left out–there’s a scratch on your plate.Some traumatic event

EP151: A Fine Line Between Grief and Joy with Joy Elohim

Joy Elohim is a Change Coach who works with people around grief. Although that might sound depressing, it’s not at all depressing for Joy. She loves it, because grief isn’t depressing to Joy. Grief is a beautiful expression of love and life. I love how Joy describes the aliveness in grief. The way that everything is

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More than Meets the Eye

It appears as if the experience we’re in–what we see, think, and feel–is the truth, reality, all there is. Our psychology–thoughts, feelings, and behavior–not only appear to be all there is, they also look personal and meaningful, like they are ‘us’ or ‘ours’.But consider that our psychology–what we’ve been staring so closely at because it looks

EP150: On My Terms

Have you noticed how people often qualify what they want with their “terms”? They want to be happy, or have a nice relationship, or have fulfilling work, but only “on their terms”. It has to show up a certain way–a way that our mind surely made up–in order for it to be okay.“On my terms”

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Misunderstanding

All human suffering is due to some very simple misunderstandings.All habits and addictions, worries, and feelings of stuckness stem from some very simple misunderstandings about life.They come from misunderstandings about who we really are and how our human experience works.With these misunderstandings cleared up, life makes more sense. This is true anywhere in life– when

EP149: Burnout to Buoyancy with Dorothy Martin

Dorothy had been working with individuals and organizations to help them manage stress and avoid burnout for many years. Then, stress and burnout hit her. Hard. She went through a period of time when she would wake up completely exhausted. She hated to be awake. Stress, exhaustion, and hopelessness were her new norm. Then, she came

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Falling Away

Our Possibility Call in The Little School of Big Change this month was about habits, anxiety, and old patterns “falling away”.I use that phrase–falling away–often. And I get that it can be easily misunderstood. A mind will add a lot of assumptions and meaning to it. If a habit or issue “falls away”, it must happen

EP148: If This, Then That

Your brain is a fancy computer, always making predictions in order to keep you physically alive. To support its prediction making, it makes up causal models to try to explain how life works. If this, then that. If x, then y.Which is fine, except those causal models aren’t accurate. And we often take them as