The Fire Starter Sessions

The pursuit of balance is stressing us out. It’s a maddening juggle of self, others, career. Equal parts exercise, home décor, loverly devotion, career ambition, and family tending—and we wonder why we get sick when we finally take a vacation.

It starts to creep in at about eight o’clock the night before the workweek starts. I believe the Latin term is Yuckis Lundi Dreadus. You start thinking about everything waiting for you on Monday. Looming. Targets to hit, important conversations to have, what to wear. How you gonna fake motivated this week? Your stomach starts to knot with anticipat

Do you think that Leonardo da Vinci or Amelia Earhart or Richard Branson set out thinking, “I want to live a balanced life”? No. Their aim was on audacity, full expression, and all the boundaries that they were compelled to break.

If you’re going to realize your intentions, what you stop doing is just as important as what you start and continue to do. This is where “quitting” crosses over into enlightenment. Stopping = the white space. Stopping = room to run free and create from the deepest place of being without restraint or compromise. Stopping = more time for what matters

If you “follow your bliss … you will begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you,” said Joseph Campbell,

Your original self and all its great capacities are present from day one. Jungian analyst James Hillman calls it “the acorn theory.” It is the idea that we are born with a soul that shapes our destiny—that our full potential already lives within us. That potential may lie dormant until your life conditions become the ideal environment for you to sp

You just lie flat on your back, breathe, and integrate. The purpose is that all the work you just did is metabolizing. It’s taking effect. We need more Savasana in our lives to integrate what we’re learning.

Losses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. A real tragedy? That’s the loss of the heart and soul themselves. If you’ve abandoned yourself in the effort to keep anyone or anything else, unlearn that pattern. Live your truth, losses be damned. Just like that, your heart and soul will return

Identity Refinement 101. Subtle panic. Eventually, I started giving up trying to be good at stuff that made me feel bad.