Awareness & Understanding

Life Skills We Didn’t All Get

Have you ever felt like the only one who doesn’t get it? Like others instinctively navigate the basics of life and you constantly struggle to catch up? Constantly struggle and fail? Like there’s something fundamentally different about you? How much time and energy have you spent wondering why you’re such a misfit or fighting to just get through each day the best you can because, well, this is just the way things are for you? The good news is that these experiences do not mean there is something permanently wrong with you. There may simply be a few basic concepts…

Is Your Understanding of Yourself and Your Reality Accurate?

Did you know that much of what we think of as our inherent personality—beliefs, attitudes, reactions—is not permanent? The human mind is so powerful, it can create its own reality. Tell itself a story and make itself believe. We do this to alleviate discomfort. To make sense of things we don’t understand. We do it to survive. And for the most part we are not conscious of the self-deceptions that began early in life. In adulthood, some of the things we still allow to control and define us are no longer appropriate. Some were never true. They were the invention…

Living From the Inside

“Happiness comes from the inside” “Be true to yourself” We hear phrases like this all the time. But how many of us know how to make them reality? Our reality? Each of us is a unique and complete being. From the moment of birth, a brand new, living spark incorporated into an amazing, beautiful, complicated world. With the inherent privilege to experience it. And the opportunity to contribute something no one else ever can. While we all have equal value, equal right to take up the space we occupy, and equal opportunity to contribute something special, we don’t have equal…

Life is like a… Bubble?

Concepts come to me in pictures. They always have. I hear words and my mind kicks into gear building images that represent the ideas and relationships. I visualize to understand, to explain, to remind myself of key concepts when life gets challenging. The Bubble represents how an individual experiences life. I envision life as a river. A river of water. A river of air. It varies. And it doesn’t matter. The river moves swiftly. Sometimes it’s calm and sometimes it’s turbulent, confusing and chaotic. For our journey on this river of life, we are each given an individual and separate…