The Weekly Seeker #7 *To receive this column in your inbox every Friday morning, join my email community. Have you ever experienced a dark night of the Soul? Are you currently experiencing one? This is a term we use in the spiritual community to describe a painful, challenging, disorienting period in our lives — one …
The Weekly Seeker #6 *To receive this column directly in your inbox every Friday morning, join my email community. As humans, we can sometimes take things really personally. Like when someone cuts you off in traffic. Or someone fails to hold open an elevator door for you. Or someone criticizes some aspect of who you are, …
The Weekly Seeker #5 *To receive this column directly in your inbox every Friday morning, please join my email community. You’ve likely heard the term toxic positivity. Maybe you’ve even experienced toxic positivity, or at some point engaged in it yourself. (No blame or judgment or shame; we all have.) When you’re feeling angry, sad, …
The Weekly Seeker #4 Note: To receive this weekly column in your inbox every Friday morning, you can join my email community. Failure. Feeling like you’ve failed at something in your life can really sting. It can bring up deeply uncomfortable feelings of inadequacy, imposter syndrome, self-criticism. It can make you want to crawl into …
The Weekly Seeker #3 Rejection. Being rejected. Feeling rejected. Perhaps one of the things we most fear as humans. The fear of rejection can be a huge obstacle in our lives, if we allow it to run the show. (For some of us, this fear is one of the major obstacles we must overcome in …
The Weekly Seeker #2 The Law of Interconnectedness.* This Law states that we are karmically interdependent and interconnected. In most of our modern societies, it feels like we lead separate lives. Like we’re separate individuals, concerned mostly with what’s going on immediately around us. It might feel like whatever I do affects only me, or …
The Weekly Seeker #1 Panic. A primal reaction to life, to the unexpected, to bad news, to things going “wrong.” As humans, we also panic about things that haven’t happened yet. Things we think might go wrong. Things we imagine going wrong. I’ve lived most of my life imagining worst-case scenarios. Infusing these worst-case potentials …
