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This seems like an odd quote for the day after Labor Day, but it’s one I’ve always believed in. Work can either be a job, a career, or a calling. If we’re diligent and fortunate, it can feel as if you’ve been called by the heavens to answer your vocation. I’ve had three callings in ...
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It’s a lot to digest. Normally, at times like these in the past, I might “show off,” but with the launch week less than two months from now, I will
However, what they often overlook is asking the fundamental question: What do I want to do when I grow up? While it’s the kind of question we were asked early
Two days later, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Michael Meade’s “Living Myth,” and he was talking about the metamorphosis of butterflies. Who knew that the Greek
I filed for divorce from the man I married three decades ago and jumped off a cliff with my eyes closed…and landed 1,700 miles across the country. I started over
And Two: It’s essential to be able to make the shift from being a victim of the situations that have occurred in your life to claiming any parts that are
Here are nine of her best quotes: “Aging is proof of living, not decay.” “Instead of the typical age question of ‘How old are you?’ The question that’s more appropriate
“I am what I do” (achievement) “I am what I control” (power) “I am what I own” (status) “I am how I look” (vanity) “I am what others say about
Someone asked me that question on Monday when my newest talk “An Alternative to the Midlife Crisis” debuted on the TED website. I was fortunate enough to be asked to
I’ll admit that it took taking mushrooms in college to open my mind, heart, and soul. Not coincidentally, this was also when I started microdosing Maslow (as in Abraham Maslow
The dreaded midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes — but it’s actually really serious. After I lost a few friends to midlife suicide, I set out to
In his book “From Wild Man to Wise Man,” priest and teacher Richard Rohr writes that many people experience an immense father hunger, a “huge, aching hole inside that is
Years ago, I was training novice psychotherapists, who just as I did when I was in training, felt tremendous anxiety about our respective ineptitude, wanting to leave behind all of
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