Response Flexibility – Shifting Perspectives
Retirement Beyond a Comfortable Bubble
Travel. Grandchildren. Gardening. I hear these are what many folks do when they retire, if they are able. I’ve traveled some, mostly to hike in wilderness. I thoroughly enjoy zooming […]
How Quickly Everything We Have Treasured Disappears
Ephemera: something of no lasting significance; paper items that were meant to be discarded after use; lasting one day only. – Webster’s College Dictionary The word ephemera was used by […]
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 […]
Experience – Embody – Express
As I move into the wise elderhood of my retirement, I realize I am evolving from teaching about resilience through evoking experiences of resilience (which is always how I’ve taught […]
Intra-Connection Moment by Moment by Moment
You can watch for yourself Tara Brach’s wonderful conversation with Dan Siegel about intra-connection. Dan is careful to distinguish between INTER-connection (ties between separate, differentiated entities) and INTRA-connection (the innate […]
Alive Until You’re Dead
I haven’t devoted an entire newsletter to just one book in a long time, and won’t do that here either, but Susan Moon’s Alive Until You’re Dead: Notes on the […]
Turning Old Paradigms Upside Down and Inside Out
By framing my retirement as leaning into Renaissance (re-birth) I have created an opportunity – even a requirement – to review and challenge old paradigms, old ways of thinking – […]
Finding the Goldilocks Spot
As you read this, I will be celebrating my (almost) 75th birthday by attempting to hike to the top of Mt. Lassen (10,500 feet). When I climbed the peak last […]
Retirement as Re-Calibration, as Metamorphosis
When I casually mentioned to several friends recently that I was experiencing my leaning into retirement as a time of re-calibration, we all nodded as though we knew what I […]
Shifting Perspective – Making the Invisible Visible
I had a five-hour flight to teach at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium last week, enough time to read one entire book, start to finish. And to relish not only the […]