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Acceptance runs deeper than words
So much of my ideas around time revolve around doing things. This meeting or that activity measured in certain amounts of time. I put aside time to do things and then fill it with…
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Dreaming the deeper dream
This will make it 3 of 3 and I know in writing this I am also leaving out a whole lot that could be included. That's the nature of this creative project, it always involves loss….
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Vision quest part 1 – Introduction
When I first heard about a vision quest, I was young. It sounded like a terrible idea even though I knew it was a respectable thing to do. I mostly feared that I wasn’t made out…
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Remembering
Looking back to see forward To remember implies that there’s something we’ve forgotten—and this is often true. Being alive is synonymous with forgetting. In fact, you might say we’re born not just…
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How to write morning pages
Morning Pages, a practice developed by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way, are a daily writing exercise designed to unblock creativity and foster self-awareness. They are essentially brain dumps—three pages…
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Empowering Minds: Support Ryan’s IFS Level 2 Journey
I’m conducting this fundraiser for my Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) course in October. IFS is a transformative therapeutic approach that views the mind as naturally multiple, with each of our…
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Beautiful Monsters
In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a powerful concept that can transform how we view our inner struggles. Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche speaks about shaking hands with what he calls our “beautiful monsters.”…
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How not to doubt yourself
The Dalai Lama once said that he wasn’t aware of how much the western mind doubted itself. It wasn’t much of a feature in Tibetan culture. As if in the West, we…
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For the love of movement
In movement, we engage in a kind of alchemy of the past. We come into relation with ourselves, not as we want to be but as we actually are. This can be…