Protecting Our Inner Space Life places us in situations that can leave us feeling energized, drained, peaceful, anxious, or emotionally overwhelmed. Crowded gatherings, difficult conversations, family events, workplaces, and even joyful celebrations can demand more from us than we realize. Some spiritual traditions describe these experiences as interactions with energy and speak about protecting the
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The Need to Step Away Sometimes the most important work we can do begins when we give ourselves permission to step away from the noise of everyday life. A retreat creates that kind of space by allowing us to slow down, reflect, and listen more carefully to what is happening within us. It is more
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When Pain Forces Us to Look Deeper Awakening Does Not Always Begin in Peace People who grow up in painful or unstable families often start asking questions other people may never have to ask. Why does somebody who says they love me also hurt, control, neglect, or frighten me? Why does peace sometimes feel strange
Men Do Not Enter the Dating Market on Equal Terms People often talk about dating as though every man is playing by the same rules. Men are told they must approach, pursue, provide, impress, show confidence, and somehow prove their worth before a woman becomes interested. There is some truth in that description because plenty
We Usually Know When the Real Conversation Has Not Started Most of us have been in a conversation where we could tell something else was coming. Somebody walks up asking, “How you doing? Everything good? How’s the family? What do you think about this weather?” We answer politely and go along with the conversation, but
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A Simple Game With a Surprising Answer Imagine yourself standing on a game show with three closed doors in front of you. Behind one door is a brand-new car, while the other two are hiding goats. You choose Door 1 and hope you got lucky. Before anybody opens your door, the host, who knows exactly
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A Different Kind of Career Crisis For millions of baby boomers, those last working years were supposed to be fairly predictable after spending most of a lifetime building a career and preparing for retirement. They worked for decades, watched their salaries grow, put money aside, earned benefits, paid into Social Security, and figured they had
The Words We Say Silently Most of us carry on a conversation inside our heads almost all day long, whether we realize how much we are doing it or not. We tell ourselves we are tired, worried, angry, overwhelmed, confident, prepared, afraid, or uncertain about whatever happens to be standing in front of us. Because
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The Mystery of the Voice Inside Our Heads Most of us carry on some kind of conversation inside our heads every day, whether we pay much attention to it or not. We replay conversations and think about what we should have said, question decisions we already made, and sometimes remember something embarrassing from twenty years
The Fear We Rarely Discuss We spend a whole lot of time talking about the fear of failure, and that makes sense because nobody enjoys rejection, embarrassment, disappointment, or losing money. But there is another fear we do not talk about nearly as much, and sometimes it shows up right when life is finally starting
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