Claim Your Life Now

Now is the time.

Let's have a discussion. What are some of the survival traits you grew up with and kept as an adult? What helped you to break free?

A lesson that took awhile to learn.

Authority Figures

Love this post. This is a very triggering time of the year. I need lots of quiet time to feel what wants to be felt.

Expressing Feelings

EnneaThought® for the Day

Type Four EnneaThought®

Wisdom teaching: The more we allow ourselves to feel the pain of our self-abandonment, the Essential qualities that we have been longing for begin to arise in us. The unfinished business of childhood begins to resolve itself in our psyches and our hearts begin to heal. (Understanding the Enneagram, 365)

Teaching:

In the last analysis, learning how to transcend the ego involves nothing less than learning how to be open to love. Only love has the power to save us from ourselves. Until we learn to truly love ourselves and others—and to accept the love of others—there can be no hope of lasting happiness or peace or redemption. (Understanding the Enneagram, 356)

Each time I learn to let go of what I thought was necessary for my own happiness, I invariably find myself in a larger place, a larger space, a deeper union, a greater joy. I’m sorry I can’t prove that to you ahead of time. We only know it after the fact. I used to read every book I could as a young man thinking if I understood good theology, good philosophy, good psychology, I’d know how to live the so-called perfect life and it would show me how to open the door in front of me. Now, in the last season of my life, I realize that what’s in front of me is still largely darkness—but it doesn’t matter anymore. That’s because letting go has taught me that I can look back, not forward, back at the past of my life and I can truthfully say, “What have I ever lost by dying? What have I ever lost by losing?” I have fallen upward again and again. By falling I have found. By letting go I have discovered, and I find myself in these later years of my life still surprised that that is true. [2] Richard Rohr.

I love this poem. Donna Ashworth is a master at expressing the inexpressible. Thank you.

Coming out of hibernation and an auto accident that occurred on Labor Day weekend. Looking forward to being more active for the remainder of this year. Grateful for my body's ability to heal itself.

I'm learning to become my own Inner Loving Parent. My surrogate mother, Bert Cooper, is teaching me how. She is 99 years old and has a lot of experience.

Sometimes I imagine being carried by a loving mother.