Writing: A Journey of Stops & Starts

The journey of writing my book has been fraught with stops and starts. I never considered myself a writer, but after writing 496 pages, I owned that I had a message to share.  I then had a strong intuitive hit that the book, which I’d originally envisioned would share the learning garnered from exploring other people’s choices, needed to be expanded to incorporate the wisdom and process I’d extracted from creating many personal maps. 

How might I do that when I created each of my maps with the rawness of a private journal I never imagined sharing? [Read more…]

Your Choices Tell You Who You Are

Another short book reading… This one’s about how looking back and exploring what came from your choices allows you to take ownership of that choice and your subsequent actions.

Every single day we make choices, some big, some small, but certain choices are deeply meaningful because they demonstrate who we are, what we value, where we’ve been and where we’re going.

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To listen to my first reading about how I found my way back to my mother, click here.

Shifting Out of Judgment

To release shame, the most powerful choice we can make is to forgive ourselves. To release resentment, the most powerful choice we can make is to forgive others for how their choices affected us.

Finding the compassion to forgive yourself can often be more challenging than forgiving another.

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