On Shifting Perspective What if I’m wrong?What if I’m doing something not because it is the right thing to do, but because I BELIEVE it is the right thing to do?Are you willing to turn around and look at something from another perspective?It is when we refuse to consider the possibility that we could be […]
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September is Suicide Prevention Month “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up- so what?”—Marcus Aurelius, Meditation 7.7 The most powerful man in the world, the emperor of Rome at the
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Meeting Our Emotions With Curiosity I felt myself getting pissed off.Part of me wanted to take the anger and run with it.The Stoic in me won out.Not because it caused me to shove down my emotions. That’s not what Stoicism teaches.It won out because I got curious instead of angry.I called Finn over and told
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An Ode To My Father Always hug your dad. There was a stretch of time when I was a teen that I barely spoke to my dad. I wrote earlier this week about how much shame I felt when I got out of the hospital for anorexia. That silence and shame is what led to
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Kindness is Never Insignificant Toddlers shouldn’t get cancer. Kids shouldn’t get cancer. Teens shouldn’t spend high school in the hospital. Mothers shouldn’t have to deal with cancer when pregnant or with young kids. But they do. And all the “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts” in the world won’t change reality. Tonight for a few hours a group
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Turning Obstacles into Opportunity What obstacle will you turn into an opportunity this week? Last summer we dug a moat in front of the house and laid all new tiling to solve the problem of water pressure from the thick clay pushing against the retaining wall along the path to BMK. For a week I
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Practicing Stoicism I listened to the doctor explain what seemed like an endless list of diseases she wanted to test for. I knew the names of some but others fell into the list of “will never be able to spell that correctly enough to google.” But I knew the names of some and my stomach
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Our Hurting World The world feels so messy right now.Covid is back on the rise.19 children and 2 teachers murdered in their classroom.War in UkraineFamine across AfricaWomen’s access to safe abortions threatenedLife and our connection to each other feels both complex and complicated.And we often make things messier in our attempts to avoid the discomfort