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You Are Okay, Right Now

February 17, 2013
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You Are Okay, Right Now

This blog is about healing. The coaching work I do with people is about healing. I call myself “The Self-Healing Coach”. And yet, I have never addressed the frequent and fundamental confusion regarding the word “heal.” “Healing” often gets confused for “curing.” But these are not the same thing. While they are used interchangeably quite often, they are, in fact, galaxies apart. A person can be “cured” of their illness and still need healing. And a person can be “healed” but still be symptomatic and “sick” by medical standards. I know that everyone wants...

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Stop Banging on the Walls!

July 2, 2012
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Stop Banging on the Walls!

“There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.” – Chogyam Trungpa, Spiritual Materialism Healing can’t happen fast enough. If you’re anything like me, you look at people like Ann Boroch, Dr. Terry Wahls, Michael Brown, and you want to get there. You want to be symptom-free. Like, now. Like, yesterday! You want all your discipline, dedication, and effort to pay off. You want to be healthy, already. C’mon, what’s taking so long! This needs to happen now! But, alas, there’s the rub. It’s the aggression and...

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Television Is My Drug (And Other Buddhist Teachings)

June 29, 2012
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Television Is My Drug (And Other Buddhist Teachings)

When my mom died, I watched the entire series of Grey’s Anatomy. In the spring, when I had a bout of double vision and depression, I watched the entire series of Lost. Last month, it was Ugly Betty, start to finish. Oh yeah, and 30 Rock. Television is my drug. Television is how my ego – or, according to Buddhist philosophy, the lord of form, has got me in its grip. Here’s what Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa says about the lord of form in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism: “The lord of form refers...

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