My First Encounter with Self-Compassion
Self-compassion: I loosely define self-compassion as caring about myself at least as tenderly as I care for my friend or my dog or my houseplant. (I have one. It’s a red one. That’s all I know about it. I don’t care very much about it. But at...
Student Follow-Up
So far, no one has ever reached out to say, “You were my least favorite teacher ever.” Thanks for that! Don’t worry, Inner Critic – I know that doesn’t mean I don’t have any haters. I hated some of my teachers, and I haven’t reached out to tell them so. Plus,...
Paying It Forward
Love is a tough thing to catch up on. I really should tell my favorite teachers how much they really meant to me. I should tell my biggest influences that they impacted my growth as a person. I should write to the authors of the books that transformed my life. I’m...
Making Friends as An Adult
Leaving my family’s cult a couple years ago, and losing nearly all my friends and family in the process, I had to start completely over. It was a crash course in community building, starting at zero. Kids do it all the time, moving to new cities, changing...
No – YOU Walked Away from ME
Old Rules Back when I was a part of my family’s cult, people left [or were kicked out] all the time. We were supposed to cut them off when they left us, but I held a slightly different policy. I figured the last thing in the world they needed was to look at...
How To Participate
The Need The Solution How It Feels How To Participate (you are here) Code of Aspirations Code of Aspirations Explanations Logistics GROUP PREMISES: I can learn a lot about myself by talking honestly about myself, even to myself. Being forced to put into words what I...
Intro To Meditation
What? Why?Meditation is mental exercise. There’s basically no wrong way to exercise. If you’re moving, it’s probably just fine! The important thing is that you do it because everyone needs to exercise. And almost 0% of the population...
The Seven Homecomings Meditation
Click here to download a guided meditation of the 7 homecomings. I no longer use this particular recording, and I don’t mean to promote it, except as an example of one of the ways to walk through the 7 homecomings. A campfire is lit just after sunset, and about...