This month’s article was about how needing to be perfect—an impossibility—stops us from knowing that we are enough. That doing our best is all that we need to do. For Stacy, her need to be perfect came at the cost of enjoying the learning process. Stacy had always been a…
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It’s All Happening Perfectly
This month we’re talking about how trying to achieve perfection can become an addiction—rather than living life knowing that we are enough, we struggle to achieve something that is impossible—perfection. Susan had a wonderful response for when things aren’t going as “perfectly” as we want them to. The answer is…
Each one of us is Enough
Which of us doesn’t want to have a good life? Who doesn’t want to be enough? With a lovely house and garden, sweet children, a loving spouse, who come together for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A life filled with good friends who celebrate over an elaborate meal and extended family…
The Protective Filter Exercise
This month we’re talking about turning our backs on all the messages of ‘danger’ that we are bombarded with. This exercise, from Embracing Uncertainty, can help us set boundaries so that the negativity can’t affect us. For a while in my own personal growth, I drastically lowered the amount of…
Creating Good News Out of Bad News
“I recently received an advertisement for a how-to book about health. On the cover of the brochure was emblazoned the words, ‘READ THIS OR DIE.’ I didn’t read it and I didn’t die!” Susan wrote in Embracing Uncertainty. How often do we come across headlines, advertisements, videos, social media posts,…
A Children’s ‘What If’ Game
A fun party game is asking crazy ‘what if’ questions and creating playful, entertaining answers. Questions like, “What if unicorns are real,” or “What if you could surf on sand?” However, ‘what if’ questions can become a problem internally when your inner Chatterbox starts asking them from a place of…
I Will Worry Tomorrow
In Embracing Uncertainty, Susan offers this exercise to help us get past the ‘what if’ fears and stop worrying. THE I’LL WORRY TOMORROW EXERCISE The attempt to control the future and the demand to be in charge of everything in our lives sentences us to a daily existence obsessed with…
Asking “What If?” and Answering “I’ll Handle It”
Even the most enlightened of us can’t always stop ourselves from worrying about the future and asking ourselves “what if?” Underneath our connection to our Higher Self that we work so hard for, lurks the fear of future problems just waiting for an opening to ask us “what if?” You…
Transcending Meditation
This month we’re talking about getting to know to your inner self through silence and solitude. Susan believed that meditation could be an important tool for connecting this way. Here is an excerpt from End the Struggle and Dance With Life about meditation: Let me explore with you a very…
Being a First-Hand Person
In this month’s article, we talked about how silence and solitude can help you learn to be in touch with your inner self, but it can also be a great way to understand what you really believe. The article uses a quote from essayist William Deresiewicz in a speech he…