Practices for Recovering Resilience
Adding Up to Something
Photo Credit: AND STILL I SING – Doclands I’ve just emerged from a four-day binge of the DocLands film festival, so the wisdom of today’s post resides mostly in the […]
Glass Half Empty or Glass Half Full?
[P.S. An update about the scheduled winding down of these e-newsletters and the Resilience 2.0 course is below.] I got a very different perspective on the age-old paradox of viewing […]
The Wisdom of Elders, the Truth of Paradox
My retirement into Renaissance has provided time – and a bit of an obsession in these complex and paradoxical times – to discover wisdom in “elders” I’ve heard of forever […]
True Intelligence in the Second Half of Life
I’m not the only baby-boomer on the planet leaning into retirement, obviously. Besides pragmatic permission from Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, I found a deep and […]
Love of Truth, Love of Earth
Next week, April 23-29, 2023, is National Library Week in the U.S. I share with so many, daily deep gratitude and reverence for the worlds beyond my world opened through […]
Quit v. Grit
So very, very synchronistically, the week I posted Winding Down These Posts, a friend sent me the link to a BBC4 podcast interviewing Annie Duke about her new book Quit: […]
Navigating the “Oh, shit!” circuit
I had my own lived experience navigating the “oh, shit!” circuit just last week. What neuroscientists call the “Oh, shit!” circuit is the disruption of dopamine when we get a […]
One Good Conversation
I recently read that Ralph Waldo Emerson apparently said, “I would walk one hundred miles in a snowstorm to have one good conversation.” So would I. Conversation is what connects, […]
Winding Down these Posts
Exactly one year ago, I was shepherding 17 clients toward the retirement of our work together July 1, 2022, and referring them to new therapists. At the same time closing […]
Change as Chosen, Change as Given
A recent discussion in my neurodharma group about change – how we understand-respond to-value-initiate-cope with the lack of – change in our lives, how we accept change as essential to […]