When I see new clients, 80-90% of them share one common struggle that’s evident to me within minutes of meeting them. They’re working too hard. To put it simply, they are unconsciously creating pain and physical breakdown and it shows. The great news is that simple, awareness-based exercises you can do during the small pockets of your busy day or after a hard day’s work as a reset can yield a tremendous shift forward in your experience of your body.
Read MoreHow well can you simply connect with another person's challenge? Can you just be with them, feeling it as they do and simply resonating with their experience? Not fixing, offering advice, or glossing over the emotion of it. Sounds simple, right? Not so much actually.
Read MoreRecently I’ve been reflecting a lot on my upbringing, my relationship with my dad, and the friendships I had as a teenager and into my 20s. Generally, not supportive of a broad range of emotional and relational experience. My experience was a lot like this – “At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to ‘dick school.’ The question is, will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?” That one resonated. In my 20s I was definitely en route to seeking my advanced degree.
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