When you’re having a difficult time, fail, make a mistake or notice something you don’t like about yourself, how do you typically respond? With compassion toward yourself? Or with harsh judgement and self-criticism? Many of us find it difficult to offer ourselves the same understanding and kindness we would to a friend who is going through a hard time or feels inadequate. Instead we find ourselves stuck in constant debilitating self-judgement. As some of you already know, I signed up for swimming
Read more →When was the last time you blessed someone? Or someone blessed you? It is important, I think, to rediscover our power to bless each other. To bless someone is to affirm them, to say good things about them. To say “yes” to who they are and wish them well. We can bless someone with our words, our writing, our touch , and our acts of kindness however small. We can bless the people we know-our family members, friends and co-workers, or even total strangers. Blessing someone can
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Do your daily or weekly habits support the goals you have for yourself? Or do they prevent you from reaching your goals? These are important questions to ask because we shape our lives by making choices again and again, moment by moment, year after year. Every day we face hundreds of small discreet tiny choice points to engage in this behavior or that, this habit or that. Take the goal of weight loss, for example. This goal just happens to
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