We use stories to order and make sense of our lives, to define who we are, even to construct our realities: this happened, then this happened, then this. I was, I am, I will be. We recount our dreams, narrate our days and organize our memories into stories we tell others and ours...
“We fatties have a bond, dude. It’s like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don’t know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kid...
When we show up for ourselves, we have the ability to show up as our best-selffor others around us Share this: Tweet Email Share on Tumblr Like this:LikeLoading... Professional Development,Stories 0 Comments Aaron Kampman,Anxiety,betterhelp,Brene Brown,emma lovewell,Peloton,Rich Roll,self-co...
That’s what I’m embarking on, in a halting way. Four friends are on this path with me and it would be great to have you join us. "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it," wrote Hannah Arendt yet we do define ourselves by the spin we put on the ...
Our greatest need is food, shelter…and connection. Brene Brown writes a lot on this subject, ‘a deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those ne...
In Brene Brown’s book, Atlas of the Heart, she summarizes the emotion “joy” with an excerpt from researcher Matthew Kuan Johnson and she writes “Johnson shares that while experiencing joy, we don’t lose ourselves, we become more truly ourselves”. He suggests that with joy, colours se...
relationship, we both learned so much about ourselves, and then she lived for a year. She lived for a good, wonderful year. She called it the best year of her life. And then the cancer came back and she died. So the book is about the transplant, the soul marrow transplant, and her...
How much more fun would life be if we could look at it and ourselves like this? If we could allow ourselves to try things and be ok if they don’t work out. We try, we fall, and we try again. We hopefully learned something. No need to pull ourselves down. ...