Courage-Perseverance
Hope Is Confrontation of Darkness
Quite a dramatic statement: Hope is confrontation of darkness. Spoken by psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger in the recent Sounds True Activating Hope Summit. (I truly wish I had alerted you and posted the link to access the summit while it was being broadcast for free, November 4-7, 2021. Here’s the link to […]
Finding HOPE When Everything Feels Hopeless
Finding HOPE When Everything Feels Hopeless by Elizabeth Bernstein appeared in the Wall Street Journal October 28, 2020, one week before the U.S national elections, still very relevant as the country begins to correct course and can offer hope for health and harmony for all of its citizens. I’ve excerpted the main points of the […]
Flattened by the News of the World…Revived by the Wonder of the Natural World
Exactly one week ago today, I was flattened by the specific news of the president of the United States testing positive for the coronavirus. Everyone in this world is struggling right now to keep their head above water, searching for solid ground in the chaos, working hard to maintain balance, perspective, and hope in the […]
Do One Thing Every Day that Scares You
By now you’ve seem some of the many tributes honoring the life and work of civil rights activist John Lewis, or perhaps seen the excellent documentary Good Trouble. Calling us all to the intelligence, integrity, and inclusivity that can change – and even save – our world. Perseverance was the word used again and again […]
America Is Failing the Marshmallow Test
My heart leapt up when I learned that I can now order books online from my local library and pick them up curbside by reserving an appointed time. Likewise, my heart leapt up again to learn that I will soon be able to reserve a time to swim laps at my local swimming pool (good […]
How to Endure the Wait – The Light at the End of the Tunnel Strategy
The best epidemiologists, public health officials, government officials don’t concur on how long it will take to “flatten the curve” of the current coronavirus pandemic. When it will be deemed safe for people to resume normal social and work activities, for students to return to classes, for workers to return to their jobs, for sporting […]
Hope is a Tricky Thing
In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me there’s something stronger, pushing right back. – Albert Camus Tis the season for lighting candles in the darkness. Especially in the northern hemisphere where many spiritual traditions offer the hope […]
Facing Our Human Vulnerability is the Ultimate Courage
As we learned in this interview with Daniel Ellenberg, we strengthen our resilience when we find our courage to turn inward and accept all parts of ourselves, even those parts that feel the pain of loss and injury. Here’s an exercise from Resilience in Shifting Mindsets to stop “bad-i-fying” or “small-i-fying” yourself and claim […]