All of us come to the present moment with trauma. I often forget to stop and consider the traumatic experiences that the person I’m talking to has built their identity and worldview around. Maybe you’re the funny person, using your wit to diffuse the intensity of what you feel. Maybe you’re the person with all …
On this week’s episode of The Created Life I talk to a truly remarkable man who turned a sequence of tragedies — the loss of his brother, his wife, and his two young daughters — into a life of healing and helping others overcome the negative impact of loss. Reverend Dr. Ted Wiard is the …
On this week’s installment of The Created Life I interview septuagenarian William Thompson, a retired 76-year young Lutheran Minister, social justice activist, and professor. Bill Thompson found direction in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, graduated from Union Theological Seminary and spent the next 16 years serving the poor. Subsequently Bill taught at Bowling …
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Try this on: you own the entire world, it’s yours to profit from and cherish. There’s nowhere you don’t belong because this planet is your home. Everyone you meet is your extended family. You are comfortable with both your smallness and power. You are clear about what is, and what is not. You own the …
Just in case you didn’t get the memo, it’s okay to be honest about what scares you, how you are wrong, to show your homeliness and reveal your insecurities; to admit fault, to say I fucked up, I didn’t try hard enough, I failed, I don’t know. It’s okay to do all that even if …
Ok so I have to download my experiences this week in the Teton Range. I’m still just training for my primary objective here which I do in four weeks known as the The Grand Traverse. The Grand Traverse is 72 hours of climbing and moving over exposed and committing alpine terrain across the top peaks …