Sep 27, 2019
I strongly believe that compassion is really only as valuable as what we do with it: the action that we take from that compassionate place.
So, why do we cultivate compassion? We cultivate it—yes—for its own sake. In Buddhism, it is recognized as one of the four heavenly abodes, or a Divine quality that we as humans...
Sep 20, 2019
In my experience there are three key ingredients that keep us from flaming out: gratitude, connection, and and dignity. The problem that we're up against is that we cannot always source these from within ourselves.
There's only so much personal development work, spiritual development, or individual evolution that's...
Sep 13, 2019
This episode stems from (really) every single decent leadership training I've ever done. This has been my biggest takeaway from all of my training: that feedback is a huge gift.
The thing that each of those trainings has had in common is that they included some form of feedback built into the program. Each has placed a...
Sep 6, 2019
I grew up a serious people-pleaser.
Today we are talking about perfectionism as an enemy of liberation. As many of you know, I am an activist and I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I look at liberation both from a political perspective, but also from a spiritual perspective. In both realms, for me, liberation...