My colleague Jack Pransky said something I love. It’s been the inspiration for my upcoming Being Human Workshop. This is how Jack summed up the truth of what it means to be human:“All we are is peace, love, and wisdom, and the power to create the illusion that we are not.”Isn’t that beautiful? And profound? Really,
Shirley has been a flight attendant for 40 years. When she was very young and new on the job, she was badly hurt in some turbulence. She was afraid to fly for a while after that experience.One day a passenger noticed her fear and asked her about it. She admitted to being afraid and told him
A friend was telling me about a panic attack he had. As is often the case, he didn’t share his experience in a matter-of-fact, isn’t-that-interesting, what-do-you-want-to-talk-about-next kind of way.I could feel the emotion in his words. The fear, the confusion, the struggle to make sense of his experience.I felt him trying to connect dots that don’t
I hear about a woman with a blog and a YouTube channel who started tracking her macronutrient intake (it’s okay, I had to google it too) and her binge eating habit went away. Four different clients in one week tell me they are now counting, analyzing and tracking every morsel of food that goes in
We’ve all been in that place of thinking we need to decide or figure something out that we just can’t decide or figure out.We can’t see what we can’t see, until we can.But what do we do in that period of not seeing? We often scratch and claw at an answer, trying desperately to see
I used to be a top notch pro at hiding stress from myself. I could have gold medaled in coping. The thing is, I just never thought I was feeling all that bad. I lived most of my early life in low-level worry, stress and anxiety, and I thought that was simply how life felt.
I’m at a substance abuse treatment center this week, sharing a deeper understanding of habits, addiction, and mental health with their staff. The unintentional theme of our talks so far has been about our “machinery” (i.e., our brain) versus what’s bigger than the machinery.See, machinery can be a bit wonky.Machinery can be a bit sticky, or not
I’m always having conversations with people about the fact that we feel our own mental dialogue, and only our own mental dialogue, all day every day.Life is an inside-out experience, coming from within our own minds, not from the world around us or from the things happening to us.And I totally get that that can
“The mystery of life is not a puzzle to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” –Frank Herbert Most things in life seem to fall into one of three categories:Things we think we understandThings we know we don’t understand, andThings our smart little human minds have never even fathomedI strongly encourage you to explore and
**This article was originally published July, 2014**Not unlike most dogs, my dog Buddha is petrified of fireworks. Unfortunately for Buddha, our little corner of the world (maybe also not unlike your corner of the world) is positively cuckoo for fireworks. The past couple of weeks have been rough on her. (That’s her in the picture on
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