We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. MARCEL PROUST
Image by James Merrill from Pixabay The Resources The fifth guidepost in the Gifts of Imperfection is cultivating intuition and trusting faith. First up, part of me wants to argue that faith is actually trust and nothing more. We don't trust faith, we trust and that is faith. So, the decision to trust is not … Continue reading Embodied Intuition
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash The Resources Brene's fourth guidepost is cultivating gratitude and joy by letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark. She points out that she was surprised to find that people who reported experiencing higher levels of joy actually practiced gratitude not as a response to joy, but as … Continue reading Embodied Gratitude
The Resources Brene's chapter on the third guidepost - cultivating a resilient spirit - has the emotional aspect implicitly but not explicitly in there, BUT Hilary's chapter in The Wisdom Of Your Body on Feeling Feelings is such a helpful lens to consider resilience through that I have taken the liberty. I'm drawing heavily on … Continue reading Embodied emotional resilience
The latest reflection piece from Nadia Bolz Weber included the video below. We watched it last night and afterwards we talked some about our reactions and observations. This morning we were still talking about it, and so I reckon it would be very enriching to broaden that conversation and explore together where we might want … Continue reading doing the work
The Resources The second guidepost in The Gifts of Imperfection is self-compassion, a concept that requires some unlearning (for most of us). There are some pretty deep rooted weeds in the landscape of my inner self - weeds whose spectacular growth has been aided and supported by a practice of shaming self talk. That was … Continue reading Embodied Self-Compassion
The resources About Authenticity The thing about authenticity is that although I'd say it's really important to me, it's not something that I would have been able to define very well. I think in younger years I would have talked about integrity instead, and meant something like being true to myself - but at the … Continue reading Embodied Authenticity
I know it went dark here for several months, and for much of that I was just in survival mode, doing what needs to be done. But also, I was doing this deep dive of reading, listening, learning, reflecting and being frustrated. Below is the first effort at gathering thoughts and surfacing some...well, they're not … Continue reading On Creating Community
Image from Pixabay It's been a while. And the Gifts of Imperfection (guide to a wholehearted life) has been in a box for the last few weeks, but in the meantime, another book arrived - The Wisdom of Your Body - which I'm excited to explore at the same time. I think there will be … Continue reading Imperfect embodiment
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash Hello Friends! Well, it's been a long, long lockdown and to help us transition into life with covid - since it looks like we can't banish it from our shores this time - I thought it might be good to start our return to gathering with some stories. Yesterday, … Continue reading A Time to Trust
Photo by Courtney Kenady on Unsplash So, life has been on hold for us in Auckland as we race to get vaccinated and live in our separate bubbles to stay safe from the Delta variant of covid. And the BB bookclub is on hold too, because there are some good conversations to be had over … Continue reading meditations for the heart
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