THE DECONDITIONING OF SCHOOL School was never my favorite place. Although, in my lifetime I’ve managed to spend nearly 24 years in school, practically back to back from preschool through graduate studies. Add professional licensure and that’s about 3 more years. I’m a few months shy of my 47th birthday, so that equates to more than half my life that has been organized around school. I’m not unique in this math and simply put, that’s an enormous amount of time for anyone to do anything. I love learning, but what I have come to understand from my own experience combined with years working in schools as a psychotherapist is that school and learning are two completely different things....
First, I want to say thank you to everyone who wrote in with positivity and gratitude for JOY. It felt really good. And even better to have support around an ending. THANK YOU. This week I share about my process around digging through some not so attractive ego stuff. I am always grateful to sift through the darkness, but it is a vulnerable experience nonetheless. I know many of you are on similar adventures of the psyche. Thank you for sharing your stories with me. I'm listening. Like I say, it's crowded down here in the hole. Thank goodness. Good to be with you down here. ………………………………………………………………………………………. When I was in high school if you cut...
I had something else planned for the newsletter this week, I was writing about my FEEDBACK research and then I found myself diving deep into the world of Human Design, so I switched the script. My client, Bridget Brown of The Advisory Guild (permission was granted to share) asked me to take a look at her Human Design chart to help her strategize an upcoming work presentation. I thought sharing part of our strategy and how it came about would provide an opportunity to walk you through my approach to readings and illuminate how you can use Human Design as a really helpful and laser focused actionable tool in all aspects of your life. Bridget was seeking direction on strategy for...
A little over two years ago while lamenting over shut down via FaceTime, my good friend Bridget asked if I knew my Human Design. We were talking about work and she mentioned that understanding her design had made a really big difference in how she spends her energy. “Go here, type this in and then read it,” is pretty much what she said. A natural experimenter I knew I was game as soon as Bridget mentioned there was something new for me to try. I did just as she suggested and received a neatly typed booklet guiding me through this whole new world. I read the booklet in one sitting and then it sat on my desk untouched for the...
