Tag: Serenity
Anxiety, Custard, and the Meaning of Life (with Neil Hughes)
Many know anxiety well, navigating the ups and downs with our inner critic always close by. Author and comedian Neil Hughes shares this path, using…
A Handful of Mustard Seeds (A Parable For Serenity)
Serenity might feel like an ideal state, a place where we’ve risen above the chaos and messiness of life. But true serenity doesn’t come when…
Acceptance and Surrender as Foundations of Serenity
“You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not…
How Do You Respond to Cheating?
Something peculiar was going on. There was no way they could be achieving these results without cheating. Could they? It left me wondering why people…
Stuck Not Broken – Polyvagal Theory (with Justin Sunseri)
Do you ever feel overwhelmed and confused by the unending conveyor belt of new labels and training programs professing to be the missing piece in…
Parts of Me Really (Don’t) Want To
There’s part of me that wants to stay and part of me that wants to go.Something in me loves to play, and something in me…
The Wisdom of Insecurity (Book Club)
Seventy years after it was written, The Wisdom of Insecurity still carries a message for our time—this age of anxiety where things often feel urgent,…
Finding Serenity When We Don’t Agree (With Konrad Benjamin)
You don’t need me to tell you we live in divided times. This is especially true regarding beliefs, ideas, and opinions about how things should…
Why Is Self-Compassion So Hard to Practice?
Self-compassion can be difficult. Many of us have learned to be much harder on ourselves than anyone else. We judge, blame, label, demand, punish, and…