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Connection Through Disconnection: The Wednesday 1-2-3
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Happy Wednesday Reader! A few weeks ago, I reached out to a group of amazing inner work practitioners, therapists, and writers to ask this question: How do you cultivate a sense of connection in the midst of seeming chaos and conflict? And in one of the first responses I received, R.G. Shore, author of The Ocean Inside Me: A Spiritual Memoir on Healing Racial Trauma, shared an approach to connection that challenged me and gave me pause. He said this: “Connection, for me, is much more about letting go of what isn’t connection, as opposed as trying to find it.” I invite you to watch the whole video (it’s less than five minutes) and take some time to reflect on what in your life isn’t feeling connective for you – and what it might mean to let it go. ❓ Questions
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The Wednesday 1-2-3
Inner work frameworks, practices, and questions – all in a five-minute read. Delivered to your inbox every Wednesday morning before you even wake up. Written and curated by Andrew Lang.
Hey Reader, This month, I'm taking a pause from writing a new issue of The Wednesday 1-2-3 each week and instead sending out some of my favorites from the past two years. Hope you enjoy! In the middle of reading Rumi's wonderful poem, “A Great Wagon,” there's a stanza that stuck out to me as deeply familiar: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the...
Hey Reader, This month, I'm taking a pause from writing a new issue of The Wednesday 1-2-3 each week and instead sending out some of my favorites from the past two years. Hope you enjoy! In 1955, psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham developed a framework for mapping our awareness and self-awareness called the Johari Window. Here’s how it works: (And a quick note: when I first learned this framework, I found myself labeling qualities in different quadrants as good/bad. If you notice...
Hey Reader, After almost two years of writing a new issue of The Wednesday 1-2-3 every week, I'm taking a short pause this month! With the October Inner Work Cohort starting up and our family now in school-mode for both our kiddos, this seemed like a good time to temporarily remove something from my plate – but that doesn't mean you won't still get something from me. 🙂 Over the next five weeks, I'll be sending out some of my favorite issues from the past two years. (And the good thing is,...