Category Archives: Self acceptance
Waiting for Creativity
This article was published in the June 2010 of “Mountain Connection” www.mtnconnection.com “But I am not creative…” I caught myself thinking as I stared at the blank paper. I knew what creativity was—and I was convinced I didn’t have it. Creative talent and artistic ability was reserved for other people. My parents certainly had it. [...]
What Are You Waiting For? Who Are WE Going to Be for the World?
Who do you want to be for the world? What difference do you want to make? What legacy do you want to leave? My Mission is that ALL people fiercely disrupt their ordinary by living their self-expression while falling in love with their own AND others humanity. A tall order, maybe… The world is full [...]
Why Addiction?
Why is it that some recover from addictions and others don’t? The tragedy about that question is there is not an easy answer. I wish there was. I know what has worked for me and over the past 20 years I have seen what hasn’t worked for others. Those of us who have been around [...]
Once Again the Media Sets the Standard for Perfection, Once Again We Buy into the Myth
I hate to admit it, but instead of meditating, I began my morning by reading People Magazine (5/3/10 issue). As I was catching up with the “news” (including Melanie Griffiths addiction struggles which will be another blog entry…), I was dismayed to read the “Body Watch” column. It begins this way, “Most moms might struggle to lose [...]
How I Stopped “Waiting for Jack”
The first time I met Jack, I ripped a hundred-dollar bill out of his hand. On a cold winter day in Denver, I waited in line to see one of my heroes, Jack Canfield, the coauthor of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and the author of The Success Principles: How to Get [...]
A Journey to Self-Love
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence. But it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anna Freud Why, in the most important relationship we will ever have, do we behave so cruelly? I am talking about the relationship we have with ourselves. We say things to ourselves that [...]
Feeling the Fear and Doing it Anyway
How many times have we heard that courage isn’t the absence of fear? Courage is instead the ability to feel the fear and take action anyway. We say we know this but once the fear takes hold, our first response is a strong desire to have it go away. So many people wait to take [...]
Should We Keep Waiting for Self-Help to Fix Us or Is It Time to Fix Self-Help?
Although it may be difficult to admit, many of us come to the self-help field to be fixed. We wouldn’t want to state it so bluntly, but it is often the case. And it may not be the only reason we come, but somewhere under the surface we hope we will finally, once and for [...]
It’s About Time
Sometimes it takes a tragedy for us to say what we haven’t been saying. The recent deaths at the James Arthur Ray event has begun to open up a new conversation in the self-help industry and beyond. I say it’s about time! I am deeply disturbed that innocent people died doing something they thought was [...]
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