These situations where I can see definite benefits and I feel encouraged by praise and at the same time I am unable to tell when I have crossed to the side of too much, unhealthy and mind numbing are such a mind fluck for me.
Category: Clarity
In the messy middle, between storm and stillness
Walking through a city park torn up by a fierce storm the other day, the metaphor was not lost on me. Huge trees lay splintered
Once a racist, always a racist!
It was my first time in Venice. The Glassmaker had charmed me into wanting to see the island of Murano and so, here we were,
The problem with compassion
The problem with compassion is that the door too it is called self compassion. Unless you try it on yourself first and therefore see the door and learn to open it, there is absolutely no way you can open the door for others.
I am not broken. I am a goddamn cheetah.
Between stimulus and response there lies a pause. (…) And in that pause, breathe in to tame the fire in you, especially when it was fed by biases, injustice, manipulation, gaslighting, lies … . Breathe and before you act, ask yourself: is it SAFE for me to show my heart and emotions here?
From a woman labeled “angry” and “too emotional “ to her younger, caged, self: you are ok!
As I grew up, in a family that was no stranger to hardship and quite strong twists of fate, there were two phrases I would hear from my caretakers (parents, grandparents, extended family, teachers, neighbors) that have shaped my reactions in my later professional and personal life.
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