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The Inner Critic is a Devious Extraterrestrial Plot! The Alchemy of Desire and other tele-classes Embracing Polarities Backyard wisdom 
Backyard wisdom I love the play of light and shadows at different times of day and of the year. There is something about the quality of the light that reveals a wisp of the essence of what is being seen in a subtle and yet transformative way. While marveling at spider webs and eating raspberries, what drifted through my awareness during this time of a balance of day and night, the time of the equinox, is that balance is not a fixed place to which we ever arrive. The light is always changing. We are either moving towards more daylight or less, towards more darkness or less of it. There is no final moment of fixed balance that we solidly and forever anchor in - just a flowing and, when we stand back farther, we see a rhythm of the seasons over the years that feels balanced. For those of us struggling to find balance in our lives, maybe it's time to take a step back, to search more for the rhythm of the seasons of our days and our lives. It might be time to ask ourselves what we are moving towards, what we are moving away from, and what is moving within us now?
My awesome colleague, Lynne Morrell, and I host a weekly show on Blog Talk Radio all about exploring and holding the apparent paradoxes in our lives. You can join the conversation every Monday at 2 p.m. Eastern time or you can listen to archived shows at your convenience any time. The way Blog Talk Radio works is that the show is broadcast live over the internet. You can just listen while the show is live, you can call in to us while the show is live and add your comments or questions, or you can join the conversation in progress in the chat room. If you want to join in the chat room, you just have to sign up first to log in. Or you can listen to the recorded shows at your convenience. Our topics for this up-coming month include navigating the emotional scale, communicating non-toxically, the challenge of balance, transitions and possibilities, envisioning the future when we can no longer depend on the past, and letting death be our ally. Not simply coaching 101, we explore these topics with compassion, humor, depth, and very open minds. Click here to go to our page on Blog Talk Radio, Embracing Polarities, Radical and Irreverent Coaching Conversations. |
Extraterrestrial Plot! After many years of wrestling with my own inner critic and of working with hundreds of brilliant people who have allowed me to accompany them on their journeys, I have come to the startling understanding of a conspiracy of cosmic proportions. Our inner critics or saboteurs, that predator that devours our dreams, that inner voice that makes us feel not good enough no matter what we do, is an absolutely diabolical and exquisite alien artifact - planted within humans to keep us from ever really competing in the cosmos in any meaningful way. The inner critic that holds us back is none other than an alien plot intent on keeping us fearful, small, and thoroughly separated from our own magnificent power. Oh, snicker if you will, but consider this: What better way could you imagine to keep a brash species unaware of its full potential? What better way to get around some universal prime directive like "you can't just kill all the inhabitants of various planets that might pose a threat once they evolve"? No killing is required - just infect them with some computer-like virus that messes up their basic operating systems, keeps them running around in a dead-end feedback loop designed to sap power, vision, creativity, dreams and magnificence. And then, in their fear and ignorance they will just kill each other as well as their own very best dreams. There's one less intelligent species to have what it takes to fully co-create our universal becoming. Stay with me here for just a minute more. Every single one of us has some kind of inner critic. Whether called critic or gremlin or saboteur or, as the story teller Clarissa Pinkola Estes calls the virus, the predator that devours our dreams, this inner voice comes with our human territory. No matter how emotionally intelligent we are or how very much inner work we have done, no matter how holy we are or how great our self esteem may be, we all have an inner voice that has found a way to keep us smaller than we need to be. "Who do you think you are?" "You're not good enough", "You're too loud/dumb/clumsy (fill in the blank) or you're not smart/fast/rich/pretty (fill in the blank) enough". "That's too selfish" or "No one will like this" or a hundred other messages of unworthiness and un-lovable-ness whisper (or scream) through every single one of our human minds. See what a brilliant virus this is? Are you beginning to get what a coup this is for our competitors in the galaxy-wide market place? Can't you just hear them saying, "We'll keep these backwater bipeds ensorcelled in the illusion of their unworthiness for a few hundred thousand years while we live to our full potential and leave them eating our stardust!"? Click here to continue and find out how to see through this illusion.
The Alchemy of Desire: Awaken, claim and fiercely commit to your Great Work Monday evenings starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26 With lightness and fierceness we will provide powerful and useful tools for: • Courting desire or learning how to even know what you want •Transforming your relationship with desire •Clarifying your desires in alignment with your values •Honoring your standard operating procedures •Getting past the predator that would devour all our dreams •Recognizing your inner rhythm •Engaging inner and outer allies •Creating an on-going practice for knowing your true self •Sensing the prevailing winds •Celebrating your accomplishments along the way •Compassionately and fiercely defending your dream against inner and outer threats Cost: $99 For more about this class or the others listed below click here. My awesome coach buddy, Lynne Morrell, and I will be co-teaching these classes. Together we'll bring wisdom from life coaching and relationship coaching, the Wise Woman tradition, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). You'll have fun while being stretched. Other tele-classes you won't want to miss: Be Your Own Fairy Godmother this Holiday Season: Torch the tree, lose the stockings and burst out of the old paradigm Monday evenings starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14 The Dance of Self Re-Creation: Moving beyond the tyranny of new year's resolutions Monday evenings starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, 1/4/10, 1/11, 1/18
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