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, 2017
- 3 min
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...
- Dec 21, 2016
- 2 min
“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...
- Mar 30, 2016
- 3 min
Compash-Imagination
GAMES BEYOND ESCAPISM… Play. RADICAL COMPASSION: Compash-Imagination TOOLS: field notebook and good pen, a timer, other humans, and a...
- Mar 12, 2016
- 2 min
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...
- Mar 6, 2016
- 2 min
Ignite Your Creativity
Teaching is about information and understanding. Coaching, however, is for intuition and implementation. Here’s a 2-minute video if...
- Dec 8, 2015
- 1 min
Luminations — Being flame…
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...
- Nov 14, 2015
- 1 min
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...
- Sep 28, 2015
- 4 min
Radical Awakeness: Living Among Animals
I was invited to share today in part because my life and my work has become embedded in so very many animals. Our river farm is and has...
- Aug 12, 2015
- 4 min
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...
- May 18, 2015
- 1 min
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...
- Jan 22, 2015
- 2 min
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...
- Jan 5, 2015
- 2 min
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...
- Dec 30, 2014
- 1 min
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...
- Dec 29, 2014
- 5 min
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...
- Nov 4, 2014
- 2 min
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...
- Mar 7, 2014
- 1 min
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...
- Feb 6, 2014
- 3 min
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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