making your home work
It happens: sometimes a comment from someone else can just ruin your day, or a message that feels hurtful can send you spiraling. The sting feels personal, and you might replay this offense in your mind over and over. It’s such a human reaction. Today I’m going to share wisdom from three ancient philosophies — …
How many tabs do you think are open in your browser right now? Most people have more than 10 open at once, and probably just as common is to have 20+ tabs open. It can be overwhelming! I’m no stranger to this myself — I will often open a bunch of tabs while researching, taking action on things, reading casually, …
There are many of us who’ve been living for decades with the belief or feeling that we’re not good enough. It’s such a fundamental belief that we don’t even realize it — but we feel it. It’s in our ever-present anxiety — if I’m not good enough, then I’m going to fail, I’m going to be show to be inadequate. It’s in our …
We’re entering the last month of the year, and for many of us, it’s a darker and quieter season. It’s the perfect time for reflection. I like to use December to deepen into reflection, and in my Fearless Living Academy, we do a yearly ritual that I call “Sacred Bow” (as in “bow in reverence to your past year”). In …
When I was younger, I had a hard time doing some basic things like: I always knew that I “should” do these things, but they felt like too much back then. Avoiding taking care of things always left me feeling like my life was a mess. These days … I’m not at all perfect at any of the above … but I’m so much better at …
Eating healthy is something I’ve been a bit obsessed with for the last couple of decades, and I’ve transformed my eating in some really fundamental ways: These are huge transformations for me, and they’ve changed my health and my mindset towards health. At 51 years old, I feel incredibly healthy — and I’d like to …
I believe in finding powerful practices for transformation wherever we can find them. And the Stoic philosophers Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca are huge inspirations for me. I’ve found there to be a huge overlap between Stoicism and Zen Buddhism, even if there are also some key differences. The overlap between Zen …
Last year, I turned 50 years old … and I found myself thinking about aging more than I ever had before. To be clear, 50 years old is still pretty young, but there’s something about the number that had me realizing that my 60s and 70s aren’t very far away, and it was a bit confronting to me. After all, I’d spent most …