Five Year Plans Five year plans have a bad reputation from their association with totalitarianism communist regimes, but I have found that five years is a very human amount of
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Chronic Depression with Suicidal Ideation I was chatting with a friend today about chronic depression with suicidal ideation. They were seeking some advice for how to support a friend of
It has been a while since I posted. I have been doing a lot of writing in my day job and there just didn’t seem to be much left over
Do The Work I recently read Byron Katy’s Loving What Is – a classic in the coaching world. I tried to read it a few years ago, but the ideas presented
I was talking with a friend recently. We are both passionate about fixing systems and are actively engaged in this work. But the systems are broken and the people inside
Greed and Generosity Please Call Me By My True Names is one of Thic Nhat Hanh’s most famous poems and I had a visceral rejection response to it when I first
Trauma The Oxford Languages dictionary defines trauma as a “deeply distressing or disturbing experience.” Ironically, in the modern world, we live such relative safe and secure lives, that most of
Quitting vs Re-evaluating I think I was first introduced to the idea of ethically there being no difference between action and inaction by Peter Singer’s famous essay: On Famine, Affluence and
Emotional Overwhelm You have probably had the experience of feeling overwhelmed by emotion. This is a physical rush in our body which is often connected to certain actions. Anger –
Change Human brains like the familiar. We repeat old patterns, even when they give us unsatisfactory results. We stick with the familiar – in relationships, spending, work and how we