Share Question the Rules is for people who think they might be crazy. For those of you who think you might be the only one who can’t stand to live and work in the normal way anymore. Where the default “shoulds” and rules of society don’t work for you – they don’t make you happy [...]
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On Faith and the Pit of Futility.
Share Faith isn’t about the days when things are going well. Faith isn’t about the days when the launch brings in thousands, when the spouse comes home and gives you a kiss and asks you how your day has been and actually listens to your answer, when everyone is healthy, when you have a fully [...]
Where Anger Lives.
Share Nausea. That was what I felt when my Rolfing guy pushed on a spot deep inside my hip during our session Friday afternoon. I didn’t just feel his pressure in my hip, I felt a sickening feeling deep inside my abdomen. Foreign. Undefined. A part of myself I had no connection to, no understanding [...]
What I Found in the Wood.
Share There is a disturbing amount of space and eternity in the old growth redwoods. Disturbing because, as my BFF said in her blog post today, stillness and silence means that you can’t hide behind your addictions, you can’t hide behind your busy, you can’t hide behind the distractions with which you’ve been self-medicating. In [...]
55 Things to Accept Right Now.
Share You cannot make them love you. You cannot make them understand you. You cannot make them forgive you. You cannot make them accept you. Respect you. Be faithful to you. You cannot make them accept themselves. Forgive themselves. Love themselves. You cannot make them accept each other. Forgive each other. Love each other. You [...]
Beginnings Require Ends.
Share It is that time of year. Whether it’s in the blog post I just read about a last week of December journal-a-thon, or my client yesterday afternoon who shared how she is working on her 2012 goals, it’s time to create the next plan, the next set of goals, to begin everything that will [...]
The Management of Expectations
Share I think that’s where broken hearts come from. False hopes. Misaligned expectations. Wishes uncommunicated. Assuming that something, someone, somethey was so aligned with you that your thing will automatically happen. That you will get in, that she will say yes, that he will want you, that they will buy, that the big heavy box [...]
Reflections of a Midnight Insomnia.
Share Some of you know that a week ago I got my second tattoo, on the inside of my right wrist. The tattoo reads: “Accept” This post does not that explain the tattoo. This post is about the ramifications. I just returned from wandering around the block of my apartment complex, a few minutes after [...]
What is the most true thing I could write today?
Share I have text file called “blog post ideas” sitting in my dropbox, full of partial outlines and bullet points and paragraphs of stories about my current revelations, about dedicating my life to the impossible, about why I didn’t trademark Live your Truth, about the deserving of weekend things, etc. And I’ll probably write those [...]
Tactics of Transformation and Fire Station No. 1
Share Today, I am different. There is a calm. A grounding. An ability to see things how they are, not that which my worry imagines they could horribly metamorphosize. Not how they should have been if I had know better, if I was a good mother, if they had treated me right, if I could [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.