You know when you come home as an adult and you come home to the delicious smells of your childhood? I came home this weekend to the aroma of all things, pea soup. In my childhood, this meal, adored by parents, was a winter staple of torture for me. With hot dogs. The humanity! I […]
Three cousins walk into a bar. An illustration. A fireball on ice, cucumber soda, silver martini, and sampler app ordered at the counter, the group finds a table with their silver table number in hand. After 20 minutes of laughing and talking, they notice their appetizer has not arrived. Silver Martini, with a wave of […]
We all deal with people. Unless you’re a hermit, which then you’re not reading this…so I’ll assume you’re dealing with people! Another opportunity to pay attention to what you pay attention to is how you deal with people in meeting your needs. (See the last post if you missed self-awareness, the Enneagram, and Centers of […]
Our heart longs for peace, and conflict or struggle is always involved in getting to that peace. We each have a basic response to emotional struggle, one we deal with over and over. That response is deep within us—we aren’t always aware we’re responding in a patterned way. We can easily be blind to what’s […]
Sometimes blindspots just keep surprising us. Kind friends show you behaviors that are problematic for you and others, yet you can’t seem to shake the patterns that creep up from time to time. Or even worse, you get with your family around the holiday table, and you’re right back in childhood, poking your cousin because […]
Unique, one-of-a-kind, individual. We like to think there is none like us. Although in some aspects that is true, it’s also true we fall into patterns and types that have been around since people were laughing at Noah building an ark. Patterns are helpful. Patterns show others have been on the path before me. They […]
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