In spiritual communities we love to talk about love. So much so that I’m hesitant to even have these conversations. We say: “Love is all there is.” But what does that really mean? It’s like… yeah, love. Of course. God is love and God is present in everything. That doesn’t mean we experience love and only love 24 hours a day! We’re human. And I don’t think we fully, properly describe the alternative. What I’ve […]
Category Archives: Mindset
23
Aug
Aug
We all get triggered. That doesn’t make us any less spiritual. In fact, I think you reach a milestone on the spiritual journey when you get conscious and curious about your triggers. You can see what’s actually going on inside of yourself. When a trigger arises, you’re not lost in a spiral of reactivity. You can say… Okay, something is happening right now. And you get to choose how to respond from there. For me there’s […]
02
Aug
Aug
There’s a lot of ‘fake it till you make it’ positivity in the world. (I’m sure you’ve noticed.) How do you feel about it? Personally, I’m skeptical. In my own internal ecosystem, performing positivity has been harmful. I’ve harmed myself with my own demand to be positive all the time – as if that’s more spiritual than being negative. It sets up this duality that we’re supposed to be a certain way. And if we’re […]
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Jul
Jul
‘I’m whole, or I’m broken.’ ‘I’m good, or I’m bad.’ ‘I’m wealthy, or I’m broke.’ ‘I’m conscious, or I’m unconscious.’ Right? Binary thinking permeates our culture. As human beings, seekers, spiritual folks, healers – so much of what we are doing here on Earth is: Being confronted with oversimplified duality. Experiencing the contrast of what it feels like to be boxed into those restrictive options. Finding something else that isn’t either one of those things… […]
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Jul
Jul
It’s better for clients to be mad at you than to be mad at themselves. The space of self-attack is never conducive to growth or transformation. When clients are angry, especially with me, I ask them to tell me all about it. While they tell me, I do my best to listen without doing anything about it. I resist the temptation to express or even think thoughts that defend or protect or explain myself. This […]