Guidance
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Is Your Body Smart? How Would You Know?
Is your body smart? How would you know? Do you listen to your body’s messages as if it were a dear friend? Or do you try to block out its painful noise… having decided long ago that it must be out to get you, or just wants to make you miserable?!
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Anxiety: Listening to the Body and Finding Safety Now
Coming into my power… Office politics… My negativity… Not sure if my topic is ok… Eating… Overall stress… It’s not safe to address anxiety issues! My purpose… Making good decisions.
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I Hate Being Dependent on Others: A Guide to Healthy Interdependence
We all depend on (rely on) others for support. The angst comes from a few sources: 1) If someone gives me something, I owe them or they control me. (other definitions of dependent). 2) A belief in lack- if I rely on this, and it goes away, I won’t be able to stand it! 3)…
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Leading-Edge Creator or Natural Maintainer? Stop Making Your Working Style Wrong
Some people come alive improving a system, exploring an unanswered question, starting a project, or discovering what could exist next. Others find real satisfaction sustaining what works, tending details, preserving continuity, and completing the recurring tasks that make life dependable. Both forms of contribution matter. Trouble begins when we use one as the universal standard…
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Power Without Tension: Work From a Thriving State
Many of us learned to recognize power by the tension wrapped around it. Tight muscles, urgency, fear of consequences, and the command to push harder became evidence that we were serious. That state can produce results. It also makes work expensive. The body spends energy defending against the task while doing the task. Power without…
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Ask Guidance for Possible Yeses, Not the Right Answer
We often ask guidance a question it cannot answer cleanly: What should I do? What is the right choice? Tell me the answer so I cannot get it wrong. The pressure inside the question can make every option feel heavy. “Should” imports obligation, other people’s expectations, and the demand for certainty. Guidance becomes easier to…
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You Can Do Anything Does Not Mean You Must Do Everything
“You can do anything you set your mind to” is usually offered as encouragement. For a capable child—or adult—it can become an impossible demand. If anything is possible, every unrealized possibility may look like a personal failure. Achievement brings only the next question: What are you doing now? Why not more? Capacity quietly becomes obligation.…