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Jun 18, 20181 min read
A Hunger for Joy — Lorca’s TEDx
I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this. We find the opening when what needs to be...
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Apr 13, 20173 min read
Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral?
“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...
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Dec 21, 20162 min read
“You Can Do This Hard Thing”: The Odd Road to Tougher
A firefighter told me yesterday that when he started working with me on his resilience he was excited because he thought that he was...
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Mar 30, 20163 min read
Compash-Imagination
GAMES BEYOND ESCAPISM… Play. RADICAL COMPASSION: Compash-Imagination TOOLS: field notebook and good pen, a timer, other humans, and a...
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Mar 12, 20162 min read
How we _really_ honor those we’ve lost
With our lives. Aimlessness and loss compound each other. Perhaps you’re lying in bed at night worrying about tomorrow or next...
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Mar 6, 20162 min read
Ignite Your Creativity
Teaching is about information and understanding. Coaching, however, is for intuition and implementation. Here’s a 2-minute video if...
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Dec 8, 20151 min read
Luminations — Being flame…
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...
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Nov 14, 20151 min read
Fighting terrorism from where you are
Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...
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Sep 28, 20154 min read
Radical Awakeness: Living Among Animals
Spoken to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman for the Blessing of the Animals… I was invited to share today in part because...
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Aug 12, 20154 min read
Taking PTSD under the pavilion
The gift of inland islands… Three months ago post-traumatic stress came to walk beside me again, after many years gone. Random panic...
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May 18, 20151 min read
The Pain-Bearers
Sometimes I think I have come into this life as one of the pain-bearers — not one who takes all pain onto herself, nor one who takes it...
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Jan 22, 20152 min read
Resilience Myth #3: The Awesome Work Ethic
In the last post, we looked at the resilience Myth #2: “I’ll evade burnout with careful time management.” So stop and think for a moment...
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Jan 5, 20152 min read
Staying Resilient in 2015: The Biggest Myths — Myth #2
To give you one more idea around this one, Robert Grudin, who is one of my favorite thinkers, wrote in his book on time, “On this subject...
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Dec 30, 20141 min read
Averting Burnout This Year: The 4 Biggest Myths — #1
For a time, I crashed down into a full-on burnout once every ten years: three times in three ways — once through tragedy, once as a...
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Dec 29, 20145 min read
Adventures in “Deathbed” Conversations
A story and an invitation and a challenge. The story is here in this short Pecha Kucha video. This was about people playing with...
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Nov 4, 20142 min read
This I believe.
We are all together on this ship and some of us will die sooner. Some young. I will grieve again, and comfort. It may be me. Those of...
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Mar 7, 20141 min read
Where gracefulness matters and where it doesn’t.
But this is where I want to be clear. I am not asking that my engagement with my own particular demons be clean. That I stay fully...
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Feb 6, 20143 min read
Resilience is Power. And Peace.
“I just wanted myself back, and then to create something more. After what I’ve been through, I am not going to settle for an average...
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