You are not safe. Dramatic, yes? Chill. Let me get to the point, it’ll be ok. In previous posts I wrote about Balance and Perfection being big fat lies. They are lies pointing to a larger lie. The larger lie is that if you do all the ‘right’ things and follow the ‘correct’ paths, that […]
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Perfection is unattainable. And why would you want to? Perfection is a fixed end state beyond which you cannot go. Do you really want to be stuck? If anything, perfection is the ultimate carrot dangling on a stick by marketers who want to keep you hooked on whatever they’re selling. Life breathes and pulses. It
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Balance is a lie perpetrated out of a mindset that is binary and static; a point of view that is simplistic and ignorant. It refuses to perceive nuance or reality. Mother Nature paints with the full pallet of colors available, not just two of them. Selling the balance message is a way to keep you
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Take a trip back with me into the past before the internet to find your joy. Before smart devices. Before instant gratification of all things. It’s a time of radio, tv, and magazines (like the paper kind). Unexpected Joy We had to wait to hear and see our favorite stuff: That song that made you
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Ok, full transparency time. I do not like Christmas. In general, I don’t care for most modern holidays. They have become commercialized caricatures of what they were meant to be. When I sat down to write this post, I had pretty much worked myself into a lather over it. I wanted to start off with
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The past couple weeks have been rough. I ain’t gonna lie. It’s been downright hard. A friend died unexpectedly the morning of a major holiday (Thanksgiving) and it left me utterly gutted and flattened. I was overly irritable and having a generally difficult time of making decisions. My first line of self-care defense was to
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What makes you happy? “I want it now!” We are all guilty of this at certain times and situations. It’s what makes the quote that starts this post so infuriating. Where’s the flash? The magic? The happily ever after? I’m guilty of it and I’ve worked on myself for many years from different angles and
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Projects overdue. Bills waiting to be paid. Texts are backed up. Email box is screaming. Voice mailbox is full. Pantry is empty and they know your name at Jack in the Box. With all the plates spinning, even happy hour feels like an obligation. Time to stake your claim on calm. Staking a claim on your
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A spoonful of compassion makes the change medicine go down. This month has been all about change. Change isn’t easy. It is sometimes begrudgingly engaged and most always there’s stress involved. Leaving the zone of familiarity doesn’t feel good. It helps to remember change is a process. It is impermanence in action. It’s the seed
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A friend and I complained about and compared aches and pains this morning. Nothing major, just the typical signals of age rolling into bodies once youthful. I have a list of things that talk to me if I move wrong: The muscle I pulled in my lower back years ago tells me to mind how
