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Being and Doing: Part 2 of 2

How Do We Do More Being? If you read Part 1 and found yourself thinking, “Yes, I understand the distinction between being and doing, but how do I actually become more rooted in being?” you have already bumped into the delicious paradox…
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Being and Doing: Part 1 of 2

Being and Doing - Understanding the Difference One of the fundamental themes that often comes up in my work with clients is understanding the difference between doing and being. It seems to me like most people are engaging in their lives backwards.…
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For Those Who Fear Death

What if: What if some of our fear of death comes from assuming that we know what dying is? We tend to imagine death from this side of the threshold. We picture absence, loss, separation, and the extinguishing of everything familiar. We imagine…

Claiming Your Personal Sovereignty

  The Problem with Living from the Outside-In One challenge shared by many of my mentoring clients is living in reaction to the outside world rather than navigating the world from a grounded connection within themselves. Their attention…
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Three-Legged Race: What a Childhood Game Teaches Us About Love

Not Just a Childhood Game Most of us have run a three-legged race at least once in our lives. You stand hip to hip with a partner. Someone ties your adjacent legs together with a length of rope. A starting pistol fires, and suddenly you discover…
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Keeping The Doors Of Love Open In Your Relationship

Keeping the Doors of Love Open Does your relationship feel like a place where you can fully be yourself? Or do you find yourself editing who you are, choosing your words carefully, softening your reactions, bracing for what might come next?…

Reacting vs. Responding: A Subtle Difference That Changes Everything

Know That You Have a Choice In the space between what happens to us and how we act, there is a quiet but profound power. And most of us don't know it's there. Most of us move through our days operating on a kind of emotional autopilot. Something…
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How to Stop Turning Your Partner Into the Enemy

When Love Meets Difference Most of us have been trained to see life through a very narrow lens. We live in a culture whose values, social norms, institutions, and systems have largely been shaped by a level of human consciousness that is binary…

Not Good Enough? Compared to What?

Looking At "Good Enough" From a Different Angle We are all doing the best we can… and this is what it looks like. It looks like misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and moments we wish we could take back. It looks like people acting…
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Why Do We Keep Having the Same Fight?

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash The argument isn't really about what you think it's about. If you've been in a long-term relationship, you know the feeling. A familiar tension rises, words are exchanged, and somewhere in the middle of it,…

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