Apr 27, 2017 | Finding Safety amidst..., Life, Uncategorized
With truth becoming relative and justice and liberty apparently on the decline, many of us feel scared. We buffer ourselves in one-way or another, attempting to feel a little better. Some of us leap into action, some of us freeze, and some of us take the ostrich...
Apr 15, 2017 | Life, Uncategorized
I didn’t come by my reptilian ways all by myself. I had help. Lots of it. This is one of those gifts that keeps on giving. Reptiles beget reptiles, (like, they give birth to them) and experientially (such as, in...
Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized, Work
Aside from being perplexed about being “a cardboard cut out” (see post #3), I often found myself completely baffled by people who seemed to glide through work without anything sticking to them. They could walk through a situation where s*#t was flying, and walk away...
Jan 15, 2017 | Uncategorized, Work
At work, I worked hard. Really hard. I had to get everything right. I had to be perfect to be safe. Somehow I thought that by excelling in every way, I could avoid all criticism, and suggestions… because suggestions seemed like criticisms too. Only accolades,...
Oct 15, 2016 | Life, Uncategorized
Most of my life, I thought I was happy – or, that the best I felt was as good as it gets. For me, that version of happy is about being nice in order to be safe. “Smile and the world will smile back.” Of course, this is true at some level, but it overlooks what is...
Sep 15, 2016 | Life, Uncategorized
I was grappling with the question, “If I’m not living fully when I’m on the gerbil wheel, what am I?” What aspects of my personality, my history and my fears are driving me, limiting me and defining me – even (especially) when I’m not aware of what’s going on in me?...
