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Week 6
This week, we expand compassion to include even those we find difficult. Through writing, mindful presence, and empathic care, we practice staying connected without losing ourselves. Notice your inner experience as you offer compassion — from a place of strength, not sacrifice — to all beings.
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Intention Isn’t Enough
Is setting up an intention enough? Is creating a word, a resolution, or a whole list of goals going to get you where you want to go in this new year? Probably not. The first step is always to set an intention, but it’s just the first step. In order to live out your goals in 2020, you’ll need to do more than intend.
On Reflecting
What are your end of year rituals? Taking the time to reflect on the year past can unlock vital lessons to building a better year going forward
On Reflecting
What are your end of year rituals? Taking the time to reflect on the year past can unlock vital lessons to building a better year going forward
The Holidays: Five Teachings
No matter what you celebrate, how you celebrate –or don’t celebrate– the holidays are an opportunity for reflection, integration, action and new beginnings.
Why Being in Service Fills Us Up
I believe when any of us find a way to be compassionately active, when we participate in a cause we believe in, whatever form our service takes, it takes our inner process to a whole other level. I myself have experienced this so many times. Old wounds or limiting believe systems just simply relax by holding space for another in need.
Practicing Embodiment through Facing Fear
I have come face to face with my relationship to performance in a more significant way than basically anything else I have ever done. It has made profound shifts in my career success and confidence. I have come into a much better relationship with my body. I feel stronger, lighter, and more energized. And with increasing regularity, I like the way I look.
An Ongoing Struggle with My Body
When I was 8 years old, I picked up a black permanent marker and wrote all over the things in my room, “I hate myself”. And I really did hate myself. I hated what I looked like, who I was, my limited view of the world around me. I thought that I was disgusting and that everyone else thought so too.
Joy and our Strategies against it
Me being joyful fills my cup and allows me to be there for others in fuller, richer and more energized ways. Me depriving myself of joy leaves me haggard, resentful, and tired. Who wants to be around that?
Letting in the good was not my approach to happiness.
Can I say I believe in happiness now? Yes, but with a little more wisdom to know that happiness and longing are not mutually exclusive. It turns out that happiness can’t be found by constantly looking for it elsewhere.
Creativity and your Three Selves
Creativity is one of those ‘things’ that we are in relationship with and do not fully realize it. We have to cultivate and foster that relationship in order for it to grow.
The Joy of Full Self-Expression
Whatever happened to those days of being completely self-expressed? You know what I am talking about…. when we were little and ran around doing really weird things like jumping over imaginary animals, laughing out loud, making ridiculous faces and screaming at the top of our lungs?
What if Creative Blocks are Just a Part of the Process?
Winter turns to Spring which turns to Summer and then Fall. The process of being creative, of living, often reflects these same cycles. What if this is not something to fight against, but something to learn to value and work with as part of our creative journey?
The Voice of Our Creative Stories
As a recovering type-A overachiever who values hard work and accomplishment, I have spent most of my life battling against the constant loop in my head that tells me creativity is a waste of time. The tape has a variety of different messages for me, some of which you might relate to…
Episode 20: Letting in the Good, A Guided Meditation
In this episode, Britta guides you through gentle mindfulness, into being in tune with your body and breathing. This meditation will help focus on the positive in life, and assist in identifying areas you may struggle with. Listen once or regularly to bring peace to...
Episode 19: The Qualities of Joy, Celebration, and Letting in the Good
In this live-coaching session, Britta listens as Derek shares his struggle of feeling like everything he is doing is not enough. Rather than celebrating and giving himself credit when he accomplishes a task, he feels his survivor self holding him back from giving...
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