Susan found so much joy in learning and growing as a person, a teacher, and a spiritual seeker. In writing Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, she shares so many of the lessons she learned along the way. But most of all, she wanted to inspire all of us…
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How Can We Go From Pain to Power?
Going hand-in-hand with talking about our comfort zone, is Susan’s Pain-to-Power chart. We can’t go from a place of pain to a feeling of power without going from stagnation to growth, from comfort zone to possibility. Susan explains that feeling fear is not really the point when it comes to…
More About Comfort Zones
What exactly is your comfort zone? Here is Susan’s explanation from Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Most of us operate within a zone that feels right, and outside of it we are uncomfortable. For example, we might spend $50 for a pair of shoes, but $100 would make…