The single, solvable root of suffering

The single, solvable root of suffering

When humans try to figure out “what’s wrong with me” or with “us” or with the entire human race, there’s many external conditions we could point to in an attempt to explain the misery we feel that sometimes seems unexplainable.

Whether that’s a dull feeling of dread, a sense of anxiety or depression, the pain of isolation and loneliness, a feeling of unworthiness, or any other of a number of unwelcome painful inner sensations, we’ve all been suffering here. Early in our journey, we likely learn…

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Building a business “backwards”

Building a business “backwards”

Someone could look at where I’m at now in business building with an entirely unimpressive number of social followers and a small email list, and say, “she’s just starting out”.

But that’s not my truth, 5 years into building a business.

And it’s why a lot of advice for building a business that I see now seems 90% irrelevant. Because it’s assumed that you should start your business from what people want and work towards a product to sell them.

When I hired coaches who taught that, I tried, real…

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Why clinging stops what's needed from coming

Why clinging stops what's needed from coming

I’ve known for a long time that clinging seems to be a blocker from actually receiving the thing you’re clinging to.

Whether that’s watching my daughter years ago as a toddler cling to that ice cream cone (leading to me feeling entirely unmotivated to provide it), or my own clinging to a companion to share life with, I’ve seen over and over, in big and little ways, clinging blocking.

I even made up a little tool, several years ago, that quickly and easily lets me release whatever it is I’m cli…

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