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Navigating Resistance: A Path to Inner Peace and Greater Productivity
The Oxford Dictionary defines resistance as the refusal to accept or comply with something. In Star Trek, when the Borg prepares to assimilate a ship it declares, “Resistance is futile”, meaning the ship has no chance of escape.
In coaching, resistance has a different connotation and is readily escapable, but takes some mental effort. It’s not an attack from without, it’s an attack from within when your mind refuses to accept the reality of the situation that you’re in.
The Hidden Struggles of Healthcare Professionals: Navigating People-Pleasing
A lot of people in healthcare have people-pleasing tendencies. Training teaches you to put the needs of others above your own. You are rewarded for it. It becomes a habit to expect to disappoint yourself rather than risk disappointing someone else, whether that person is a teacher, patient, or personal relationship.
Appreciating Systems for Success in Everyday Activities
When I was actively raising children, there were two weekly tasks I dreaded the most: grocery shopping and laundry.
Both tasks had to be done regularly and seemed pointless on some level because it never felt like I made any progress.
Letting Go of Perfectionism: A New Year's Resolution for Self-Compassion
Last week I drove to my favorite trails in Point Defiance Park. The roads seemed oddly empty and quiet, even for “the time between the years” as I’ve heard it called. Perhaps I hadn’t noticed it before, since in medicine it’s always been just another week when most people don’t work, but we always had a full schedule.
The day was overcast, as it so often is during winter in the PNW. The trails seemed unusually quiet and dark as well, with fog surrounding the woods and blanketing the Sound.
Embrace Winter's Cocoon: Entering the New Year with Intention and Presence
The end of 2023 is fast approaching. Along with it ALL the emails, social media posts, and discussions about how you should complete a review of the old year. What did you do, how were you productive, what goals did you achieve and what fears did you conquer? Relentlessly followed by: What will you accomplish next year? What goals will you crush? How will you top this past year?
Adventures in Wildness: How the African Bush Awakens the Human Spirit
There is an aliveness in the African bush. And in many other natural places in the world, but the African bush is where I find it the easiest to access and experience it with effortless awareness. Perhaps because one of the elements that makes the African bush so special, at least in several places in South Africa where I’ve been, is that for years the natural state of the land was suppressed by overhunting and aggressive agriculture of crops that nature didn’t plant here.
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