On two separate occasions within the past month I have been given the same message from two distinctly separate sources, but with identical language: “put down your sword.” The first came from a friend who was giving me support as I admitted struggling with this season of my life where I am shifting my identity […]
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“I’m never getting married and I’m never having children.” This was my mantra starting from a young age of about 10 years old, and it persisted for decades without even a small crack of opening the door to the possibility of changing my mind. I was, and am, fiercely independent and saw only the limitations
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For the past couple of weeks we’ve been talking about the patterns we get into, and the impetus we feel for change when the “new year” or “new season” comes around. The first steps to change are 1) acknowledging the behavior and thought patterns that we’ve held for so long, 2) re-examining those patterns and
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Hypocrisy: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel Enlightenment: a final blessed state marked by the absence of desire or suffering “You can’t experience yourself as who you really are without encountering what you are not.”
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