“How do I practice self care and pursue dreams with a family that say they support you until it is inconvenient for them? (Leaving my family is not an option.)”
Wow, what a great listener question! What do we do when the people closest to us don’t support our dreams?
If you’ve ever wrestled with that issue, then click here to watch the new, 11:56 minute video.
“I am in ambivalence (or in quantum congruence?): I both think I am very happy and satisfied with my life as it is; and at the same time I think that I must serve a better purpose. Which one is true?”
I love this listener question from The Clarity Course Series, because goodness knows I’ve struggled with it!
Back in 2012, I constantly asked myself, “How can I want to leave my job at L’Arche when I love my friends there so much?”
For months, I couldn’t come up with a good answer.
I knew I was a perfectionist the day I got into a car crash on the way to high school.
The accident totaled our family’s pretty blue Chrysler Concorde, and I wasn’t in great shape either. Thankfully I didn’t sustain significant physical injuries, but I was hyperventilating, trembling, and generally traumatized.
Still, my tears were barely dry when I insisted on going straight to school.
Why? Well, I thought that since I’d already screwed up by getting into the accident and missing two classes, taking a day off was out of the question.
Though I would never have asked a frightened friend to soldier on like that, I demanded it of myself.
I had to keep striving. There was no room for letting myself be looked after. I couldn’t afford to make yet another mistake.
