Change is unavoidable, but transformation must be chosen (often repeatedly and continually). Change is often our invitation to transformation. It’s up to us to embrace it.
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Transformation
Transformation starts within
Transformation always happens from the inside out. If you’re hoping to transform your reality and the world around you, start with the one person you can change: yourself.
Continue readingMaps of transformation
Transformation (and healing) is always a messy, confusing process. Having a map to orient yourself makes it easier to stay focused and moving forward. Here are a few maps that I’ve found to be helpful.
Continue readingSit. Wait. Be patient.
We are collectively facing a time of massive change, and yet our current situation also gives us a great opportunity to actively lean into that change in healthy ways using these three powerful (and often ignored) steps.
Continue readingThe slow process of transformation
Transformation seldom happens that easily (at least for me), especially when I’m dealing with deeply rooted patterns. Here’s what encourages me to keep working at it when I’m learning healthier patterns.
Continue readingThe never-ending choice of transformation
Choosing transformation is hard—not just because it means choosing such an unknown path, but also because it is one we must choose again and again throughout the process.
Continue readingWhen transformation comes bubbling up through the cracks
When the earthquakes of life leave our worlds in piles of rubble, they also tend to open up fissures that let our “stuff” (old wounds, unprocessed emotions, our shadow) come bubbling to the surface. Is this a disaster or an opportunity for transformation? That’s up to you!
Continue readingDying to heal
Healing is more like a resurrection or rebirth to new life than a resuscitation of an old one, and there is no resurrection without a death first.
Continue readingThe alchemy of kintsugi living
In alchemy, base metals were not removed so that they could be replaced by gold. Rather, they became gold through transformation. The same thing is true for the broken places in our lives that become gold through the alchemy of kintsugi living.
Continue readingSeeds of new life
Seeds that are planted die (as seeds) in order to create new life as plants emerge, but each seed can only reproduce the plant that it came from. The same is true for us. Here’s the hidden warning in using this metaphor for our lives.
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