The Importance of Slowing Down
This quote really speaks to me at the moment. And I’d go even further.I believe that in order to feel nourished spiritually, emotionally & mentally we need to slow down. Really slow down.This means walking beside our experiences in life.Not behind them.Not in front of them.Instead confronting and feeling them directly.This includes the moment in […]
How to Manage Difficult Feelings (It’s the opposite of what we’ve always thought).
Our emotional world is intricate and demanding. It holds the potential for a whole range of feelings, from love & joy to despair & anxiety. One of my core beliefs is that we cannot selectively choose which emotions to experience. If we avoid one feeling, we miss them all. It’s like spending our whole lives […]
Surrender can be powerful too
Power is often exclusively understood as the ability to overcome someone or something. What if there was ALSO another kind of power that we need in order to be truly powerful? If this kind of power had a buzz word, it would be *surrender*. Take an emotion, such as anxiety. The forceful power, the one […]
The Importance of Boldness
Some of us may decide we need to be bolder, which is about taking risks more. For others of us, it could also be just the opposite, we need to learn to be more reflective before we act. No one size fits all. Often we need both. It’s about using these capacities with balance and […]
