Brené Brown was on the brand new Katie show last week…she was great in encouraging folks to dare greatly to be authentically themselves. Jenny Lawson, blogger and author…and sufferer of anxiety…opened the door to a candid look at her anxiety through her writing. That took courage. She didn’t want to create a “false history” that …
Crying
If I had a dollar for every time someone apologized to me for crying, I just might be able to retire as independently wealthy. Crying is so often seen as a sign of weakness, or something to feel bad about…like somehow watching someone cry might be offensive to me. It seems almost automatic for most …
Daring Greatly
The question that used to guide my life was ‘What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?’ Since I wrote the book, Daring Greatly, and since I came across this quote, my new question is ‘What’s worth doing even if I fail?’ Brené Brown Bust through the fear of not being …
Let’s Talk
When you work with someone long enough, and work very collaboratively and effectively with each other, it gets a l’il spooky… Today I was in the middle of a lunch time meeting with a coupla therapists and in the middle of it I suddenly realized I was booked to be in class on Friday afternoon …
11 years since 9-11
The day North Americans learned what it was like to feel terror; to grieve for fathers, sons, wives, sisters…friends of friends of friends; to understand how it changes the world when buildings are randomly destroyed with so many inside. Innocent lives lost, other innocent lives forever changed. Use the time of the video to remember …
Daring to “Be”
The start of our “Perfectly Imperfect” group is approaching. I would encourage you to register if you have been considering it and haven’t already done so. Brené Brown has a hilarious sense of humor…sometimes so much so that you don’t realize the power of her message cuz it is almost hidden under the humour. Almost. …
A Complicated Beautiful
Today was a day. It started this morning early–literally at the crack of dawn. The phone rang, and I groggily reached for it in the semi-darkness. When the phone rings at that hour, you know it can’t be good. She’s gone. We knew the end was coming, and the past couple of weeks it seemed …
Resilience
I was at an introductory meeting for parents at a school the other day. One of the speakers spoke to us about students and how to best prepare them to be able to do well. She said that research indicates that the number one predictive factor of academic success is the level of resilience in …
Hope n Hard Work
Sigh…I love videos where seemingly hopeless situations are turned around…take a look at this video: {! admin/html?id=416a524cc932c1da2d3385a7476f2325 !} What I especially love? the way this guy hung in there and didn’t give up…he hunted down someone who would help…and that took persistence, he hung in there when the exercises were hard and his balance …
A Thought
Looking forward to our “Perfectly Imperfect” Group starting in less than a month…a group that will give women the space to talk about how to resist the shattering forces both internally and externally…and finding ways to center oneself…embracing whole hearted living.