Hug Your Feelings
Stuffing down feelings like sadness and anger is a futile endeavor. My feelings will never disappear, no matter how vigorously I push them away. Accepting that my feelings aren’t going away is an incredibly liberating and powerful awareness. Knowing this, I can...
Let Love Guide
Unsolicited feedback can feel like an assault. That’s why I am careful to ask before I offer feedback to anyone. And when I’m the recipient of a feedback assault? I can breathe. I can be kind. I can remember that feedback is often more about the person giving it than...
Multiverse of Comparison
I can never truly know everything about another person. I can never truly know everything about myself! So when I try to compare and contrast another person’s life against my own, I’m working with not nearly enough information. The information that I do have is that...
Release to Inaction
When I’m stuck in a rut, it’s tempting to try to do something to get out of it. Unfortunately, my choice of action often includes those very behaviors that got me stuck in the first place. That’s why my first action needs to be inaction. I breathe. I collect myself. I...