If you’re anything like me you have more on your plate than there are hours in the day. I’m not complaining, mind you. My to-do list is filled with things I love to do – teaching great kids at a wonderful university, studying a subject I am very interested in for my PhD, completing final…

“Letting go is a painful prcess filled with both grief and coming alive at the same time. One part of us clings to the old familiar and fractured portions of ourself as the new emerging unfamiliar nature of our true self comes alive. Inside we have this last bit of grasping or crying out: My…

I asked L.L. Barkat, author of Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in the Hard and Hidden Places when it was that she’d become a writer. She answered with a typically simple, yet thoughtful response, “I don’t know…was it when I wrote, illustrated and bound books as a young girl?”  I recalled this when I read a piece she…

The following comment from kenneth on yesterday’s post, Why Is It So Hard to Let Go of Our Shortcomings?, provides an interesting take on the question of letting go. What do you think of his assertion that we would prefer to remain in a predictable spot – even when it is uncomfortable or self destructive…

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