When you get feedback, or when someone challenges you to grow in a particular way, what’s the impact on your system? If you’re like me at all, the initial impulse might be to resist. When I’m able to sit and study that resistance, and open my awareness to what’s underneath that feeling, what I find is a young part of me saying something like, “Don’t tell me what to do.” This set of responses is rooted in our fourth growth challenge: Freedom.
Read MoreThe growth challenge around Authenticity arises when we learn to modify or mask a behavior or emotion to cater to what others want us to be. In order to be an empowered individual, people with this challenge have developed a projection outward of something that isn’t necessarily authentic to their inner world. A result can be a disconnect from what’s authentically true for themselves.
Read MoreDuring the infant period of our life we have a lot of needs and rely one hundred percent on caregivers to deliver on those needs. Between feedings, connection, sleeping and mobilizing, we are at the whim of an adult to take good care of us. The foundational growing edge we’re working at this stage of our lives is Support. It’s as if we’re asking the world, “I have all these needs; is there help available so I can get them met?”
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