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Archive for September, 2010

Magical Listening

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

This week’s post is written by the delightful Larisa Koehn.  Larisa does the impossible – she provides us with simple tools that help us do something profound – listen to our body.  Larisa knows what she’s talking about – two decades of living with migraines has taught her the importance of self-care ….. and of magical listening.   [...]

Listening and the Falling Man

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

One of the most profound documentaries I saw in the years following 9/11 was The Falling Man (by the way, that link is to the Wikipedia page, not to the videos you can watch of this most appalling and upsetting of footage).  Brief background: The Falling Man was a series of images captured by photographer Richard [...]

The Best Brain to Solve the Problem

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Let’s say you’ve gotten yourself into a Situation.  You have an issue, a challenge, a horrible problem that you are faced with.  You need to… well, you may not even know what you need to do just yet.  You’re just “in it”.  We’ve all been there, so you’ll probably find it easy to bring to [...]

Choosing Life Over Perfectionism

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

If Nietzsche was correct then “the court of perfectionism is always in session”.  I never thought I had an issue with perfectionism until I started listening to what Michelle Russell had to say.  Michelle writes about the high price of perfectionism and she got me thinking about perfectionism in a whole new light.   I asked Michelle five [...]