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Fear is a curious thing. When we feel like we’re being threatened, or pushed to our limits, we can take extreme measures to try to protect ourselves. And the threat doesn’t necessarily even have to be real, just perceived that way. Someone may simply… Continue Reading “Feel Your Fears (part 2)”
For most of my Life, I’ve lived with a lot of fear. Fear to speak, to be seen, to be judged, to be rejected, to fail.. I didn’t trust myself, other people or even Life itself to take care of me. I’ve held back… Continue Reading “Feel Your Fears.”
If we’re feeling an emotion, but not allowing ourselves to express it, that energy will only build in our body over time. We can try to suppress it, analyze it, or busy ourselves in order to distract from it, but until we actually face… Continue Reading “What We Resist, Persists.”
I found this rock on my way home from work yesterday. A much needed reminder to trust that Life is working out the way it need to. It may seem like a small thing, but I’m realizing more and more that when we stop… Continue Reading “All We Need is a Little Faith”
Symptoms are justThe Body’s protestFrom living a LifeThey’re not meant to live.From playing a partThey’re not meant to play.We have two ears to listen,And yet it is not those we truly hear it with.For it is in the space between soundWhere our Body’s are… Continue Reading “The Poetry of Presence”
There is strength in surrendering to Life by allowing it to just unfold as it will. To letting go of our need to control and the expectations of how we think it “should” be. Strength in surrendering to what we’re actually feeling and allowing… Continue Reading “Strength in Surrender”
Yesterday on my lunch break, I found myself lost in thought (as I tend to do) while lying in the grass under a tree. I was starting to get stuck in a loop circling around ideas and potential futures of where the world is… Continue Reading “Rising Higher”
In me, are all of the other men who have come before me. All those who have sacrificed their lives in the name of safety, of protection, of providing, of Love. Looking back through recent history, men have been sent to work on the… Continue Reading “A Call to Men”
I feel like one of the most important things I’ve done for myself is learning how to objectively (and compassionately) observe my emotions. Often, when something outside of ourselves triggers us into a feeling, whether it’s anger, jealousy, fear, or any other uncomfortable emotion,… Continue Reading “The need for emotional self-responsibility”
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