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I attended a workshop on horses and leadership recently. This is a picture of me attempting to exercise “power with,” instead of “power OVER,” a horse named Forest.
What challenged me in this amazing exercise was not how big horses are, that there were no ropes or leads on them, or even my own expectation that [...]

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
You may have heard this quote by Marianne Williamson a lot in the last few years. It hit me at a deep level when I heard it in the movie Akeelah and the Bee four or so [...]

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Last Friday, I went to another training in Systemic Constellations, a way of working that helps people connect with their ancestry for support and reconcilliation. (This is putting it very mildly–you can read more about Constellations here.)
Partly, I attended to get more training in work I deeply respect. And partly, I wasn’t sure why I [...]

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One of my big shadows knocked on my door tonight.
“Hey there,” he said, “I wanted to let you know that it doesn’t seem like you’re very useful lately.” Then he just hung around in the doorway like a bad smell.
Thank goodness that other teachers and healers are out there—this is the balm one of them [...]

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It’s late, or, rather, early, and I’m thinking about something a professor of mine said. Dr. Tim Weber posits that there are only two questions in life that really matter. All of our angst and our striving come down to these two things we desperately want to know.
Am I good enough?
Am I loved?
How do you [...]

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“I should’ve figured this out by now.”
Of all the beliefs my varied clients have, this is the most common. It doesn’t matter if the speaker is 65 or 25, everyone seems to think they should be more advanced, more wise, more mature than they are in the present moment.
When we use the word “should,” we’re [...]

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