Notes Along the Way
Welcome to Zombieville. Where We Survive while Internally Frozen.
I recently spent four frozen days in the Deep South.
The early fall temperatures were actually lovely. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the high 50s. Ideal enough for me, I popped open many of my windows.
Yet, I found myself frozen in a chair, playing Suduku and listening to Michelle Sagara’s [Chronicles of Elantra](https://michellesagara.com/series/chronicles_of_elantra/) series, unable to travel the five feet into my office to work on the stuff that needed to get done.
Tackling the Armor Takes Intention
Spending years in a defense-focused survival mode often creates a hard outer shell around our expectations for how we need to show up in the world to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe.
Benefits of Hiring a Reclaimation Coach
You're hiring a professional friend. Someone you meet with regularly who has spent their time in hard places and walked their path out…
Intentions Underpinning the Life Support Paradigm
The Life Support Paradigm is explained and defined as broadly as possible. Each of us comes to trying to understand our lives so we can shift our approach and make what we experience more in line with the life we want to have differently.
Why I Do Family of Origin Work
And for a lot of years, and through a lot of programs. I focused on having compassion for everybody but myself. Whether it was the church or therapy, the focus was figuring out how to have some compassion for my mother.