Emotion Education
What prevents us from taking action when we absolutely know that not taking action is detrimental to us? Fear, yes, fear is a good answer. But what are we really afraid of?
A couple of months ago I attended a workshop by master coach Maggie Ostara, and she was listing symptoms of someone who experiences a certain degree of… Read more…
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I’ll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.”
Audrey Lorde, poet
Fear is a mistrusted and unappreciated emotion in our modern society. It is something to be conquered or avoided at all costs. If you can’t keep from feeling it, then for heaven’s sake, don’t let it show! People might think you’re weak.
The problem with this… Read more…
A few months ago I dreamed that I was living in a house with a woman who had an extremely deformed face. I knew we were related in some way. I decided to stay with her, confined to the house, as a way of protecting her from any humiliation. Then suddenly, I had the thought that we didn’t need to stay in isolation; that going out into the world was going to be OK.
When I woke up, I knew… Read more…
There is a weight
inside humanity.
An accumulation
of life unlived.
Unanswered love
Unactioned fear
Unacknowledged anger
Unexplored creativity
Judged passion
Stillborn joy.
Sensing our potential
and experiencing, without awareness, the loss
of withholding our personal truth
The truth that comes from deep inside
The truth that no one has to tell us is true
We hate ourselves.
Then fling that hate onto others
