Hey Reader, At the bottom of today’s email is a free 25-minute mini-workshop I recorded for you. It’s all about how we hold the charge of this moment – the heaviness, fear, unease, and discomfort of it all – in a gentle and intentional way. Just wanted to make sure you saw it 🙂 Alright – onward to today’s prompt: A couple weeks ago, I wrote that we are collectively living in the midst of a disillusioning moment. I defined this experience as: A moment when the illusion of “how the world works”...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, With Thanksgiving Day tomorrow for those of us in the United States, I thought it would be a good time to bring back the Consent/Closeness Matrix, which I first shared about a year ago. Designed by my colleague Catherine Quiring, the Consent/Closeness Matrix is a tool for helping us understand the stories we carry within us and their origins. (If you can't see the image above, you can view it here.) As you look at the matrix, you’ll notice two axes: Low consent - high consent...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
If you're finding yourself overwhelmed, you aren’t alone. Of course there's the election results from last week, the uncertainty of our current circumstance; the crushing unease of it all. But even this isn’t happening within a vacuum. We still have to go to work, wash the dishes, give the doggos their medications, and call our moms or our children or others we love. Your overwhelm isn’t a personal failing or proof of your lack of resilience – it’s a feature built into our keep-on-producing...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, I'm still sending out some of my favorite editions of The Wednesday 1-2-3 while I'm taking October off from writing. A new, day-after-election edition will be coming next week! 😬 One of my favorite one-liners to go back to comes from asset-based community development: Questions are more important than answers. This week, I want to share a practice that invites you into becoming more acquainted with the questions you are already holding within you – whether you're aware of them or...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Before we get to the prompt for this week, I want to share a bit about something I'm in the process of building. Over the past few years, and during this year's cohorts in particular, I've noticed two things a bit more clearly: how the stories we hold often keep us frozen, unable to feel present for long in our day-to-day lives, and how hard it can be to know what to do in the face of communal harm and societal struggle – and to actually do it. Because of this, I'm creating a...
3 months ago • 3 min read
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...
3 months ago • 1 min read
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...
3 months ago • 3 min read
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,...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, A little while ago, I sent out a poll and you marked that building a daily practice felt vital to you in this season of life. (Which, especially in the midst of our current election, I really resonate with.) If that’s still true for you, I hope you’re considering joining our upcoming cohort. 🙂 No pressure if it doesn’t feel quite right, but I wanted to make one last invitation. More information on the price and whatnots are at the bottom! Here's our prompt for the week: A little...
4 months ago • 4 min read