My Formula for Overcoming Defensiveness

My Formula for Overcoming Defensiveness

Want my simple formula for overcoming defensiveness? Growth Mindset + Identity Work  + Emotional Strength Training 1. Everything is learning. I only feel defensive to the degree that I buy into the idea that something is wrong with me. And I only get self-righteous...

Befriending Your Defenses

What happens when you perceive a threat or feel hurt or triggered? Are you able to stay choiceful and conscious when your psychological and emotional defenses come powerfully online?Often people tell me some version of “I wish I didn’t get so...

Narcissistic Defenses

“You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth,For the hour of new clarity.” -Rainer Maria Rilke When people ask me how life is...

5 Things to Say to Your Inner Critic

One of the best things about being home so much these days, is that I don’t have to spend any energy commuting into work. And this means I can sleep in a little more each morning. Yay! I like to wake up slowly, becoming gradually aware of the shift from my dreams to...

Growing Up and Down

Trees grow by reaching for light, and sending roots into darkness.

Both are needed.

When the movie “The Secret” came out many years ago, and as I listen to all the Law of Attraction teachings that seem to be proliferating social consciousness in widening...