Richard Leider: A Life that Matters

The number one fear was a fear of nulli- fication…that they would go to their graves and no one would notice…They had a deep hunger to have mattered, to have made a difference. I recently rediscovered New Dimensions radio. I first heard of New Dimensions in the mid 1990s through a book called An Open […]

Every problem is just Fear

Perfectionism is a formidable Threshold Guardian, a real quest-killer. It leads us into the 3Ps vicious cycle: perfectionism, procrastination and paralysis. It can prevent us from even starting our journeys. Recently I came across this 2014 series of short videos from an Oprah Winfrey “Supersoul Sunday” program. Winfrey interviews Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, […]

“Unblocking” Your Journey

Often life calls us to journeys of healing to revise a broken life narrative. Hakomi therapy offers us valuable insights into the journey’s healing power and how it can help us refocus and restart our lives. I was working on my Pinterest boards recently, and I came across a site called The Hakomi Institute. I […]

Follow the Fallow Deer

Story shapes our lives and our worlds, and the Hero’s Journey is at the heart of story. It is both the process through which we build and rebuild our stories and the form of the stories themselves. Several years ago when I rebuilt this website for the second time, I chose the fallow deer as […]

An Impulse to Something Greater

The Call signifies signifies death and rebirth, the death of our old self or old life and the rebirth of the new. We tend to think of the Call only as a call to rebirth, but it is also the end that allows the beginning. In his seminal book on the hero’s journey, The Hero […]