Resilience – Learning From Mistakes and Adversity
Meaningful, Mundane, and Murky
I landed on the title of this post last week, the day we learned that the cliff-hanging results of the runoff elections in Georgia for the US Senate returned the […]
Meeting Any Losses, Any at All…Head On
Between a stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. The last […]
Free Guided Practice: How You Respond to the Issue…Is the Issue
I teach How you respond to the issue…is the issue all the time because it is true, all the time. (Thank you, Frankie Perez, for the languaging.) And then I […]
What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others – Resilience for the Long Haul
As we confront more and more long-term issues, a virus that’s not going away any time soon, long-standing issues of racial injustice and economic inequity, global climate catastrophe that seems […]
No Mud, No Lotus
My friend Beth sent me the image above of the beautiful blue mushrooms growing out of the sludge in her trash compactor, headed for the compost heap. We both immediately […]
Resilience 2.0™: Compassion, Clarity, and Courage…in These Times, in All Times
The most recent events in America – the pandemic, police brutality, protests – have left many of us – at least for the moment – awash in overwhelm, feeling inadequate, […]
Learning from the AFGO’s – Another Frickin’ Growth Opportunity
We can wryly re-frame the mistakes and goof-ups of our lives as AFGO’s – another frickin’ growth opportunity. We forget to wipe the moisture off the rear window of the […]
Pandemic Lessons from a Cat Bite
My cat bit me last Saturday evening, and I’m using that event to explore parallels with the dangers – and resourcing – around the current COVID-19 pandemic. Danger – Naïve […]
Hangin’ Out in Limbo? – Here’s a Tool That Can Help
William Bridges put “limbo” smack in the middle of any process of transition in his classic (and truly deservedly so) Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes. Bridges found, in his […]
Coping with Setbacks and Shutdowns – Shifting from Stymied and Stuck to Engaged and Empowered
My mom grew up poor, on a farm in northern Minnesota, during the Great Depression. The family had food to eat, but not much else. She told me once how, […]