WHO THE HECK IS THE “REAL” YOU?
I love that quote by Thomas Merton! How can we possibly be anything but ourselves?! And yet, most adults have experienced an identity crisis at least once if not several times before the age of 30. The term “identity crisis” first came from developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. Erikson introduced the ideas of adolescent identity crises as well as midlife crisis, believing that personalities developed by resolving crises in life.
How To Cultivate Wisdom Through Innocence
An innocent child does not judge her experience, nor does she have the impulse to control it. Life is simply happening, and the veiling function of the brain that separates us from experience is not fully in place. The innocent child simply feels what is happening. As long as there is no distress, the child lives as an expression of pure love.
Letting Go Of Not Good Enough
“The innermost heart says, ‘You are enough. Nowhere to go, nothing to get, nothing to change. No need to grow more deserving You, yes You, are Love.’” ~Tosha Silver Statistics show that about 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every...To Begin Again
There is something primal about the New Year, where millions of humans celebrate a day of beginning again…a day of reset, another chance!
I am not referring to New Year’s resolutions of which, according to a survey by time management experts FranklinCovey, a full 35 percent are broken before the end of January of that year.
Offerings To Your Spirit
“Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.” Tara Brach Human beings need a slowed down pace to avoid “soul lag,” a condition in which the spirit of a person...THE ONLY WORK WE HAVE TO DO
“Go back and stand under that one red flower and walk straight ahead for that last hard mile. Go up and knock on the old weathered door. Climb up to the cave. Crawl through the window of a dream. Sift the desert and see what you find. It is the only work we...What Bamboo Teaches Us About Realizing Our Dreams
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison In a world of instant gratification, where you can swipe right and find the love of your life within seconds, (though more likely find a one-night...Welcoming The Shadow Back Home
This journey to the repressed depths of one’s psyche has been considered a feminine model of transformation toward wholeness. It is essentially the task of giving birth to one’s true Self. Women more often experience the pain of inner dissonance as their feminine...When Life Presents You With An Initiation
“Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact, man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health, personal growth, and individuation and self-actualization.” Carl Jung There are energies within us that get buried in the...
