Whenever there's a situation where a negative emotion is likely to be stored and become part of the fabric of your future nervous system - you'll absolutely know and be able to predict this before it goes so far that it causes that damage. Judge it by how safe it makes you feel now.

GET OUT OF THE WAY. A couple of days ago, someone offered me an opportunity that would have made a huge difference to my life and given me the chance to live with more freedom. As I was processing this offer I heard myself automatically begin to speak about all the reasons why I couldn’t have this opportunity and one part of my mind was actively shoving forward an old belief system about how there must be a catch or it was inevitable that something bad would happen because s

When we remove the problems that have become the focus of our life, how do we replant the barren land? I remember as a child being in awe of all of the elder women in my mother's family who had more ailments than anyone could shake a stick at. I'd sit enthralled listening to them compare ailments for hours. By the time I was 10 my vocabulary was full of strange and unfamiliar words such as lumbago and diverticulitis. I remember the most fascinating sight one time of my Nan