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There are many. It’s conditional. We equate love (receiving it more than giving it, but sometimes that too) with an absurd non-mathematical equation: If I do this, I’ll be loved. If I don’t do that, I won’t. It’s illusory. The premise that perfectionism is built on is faulty. That is; there’s something fundamentally wrong with us that needsRead more

It’s as simple as this: Just try to love yourself as much as you can no matter where you are on your journey. And here’s why that’s so damn hard. There’s life. Reality. Existence. Whatever you want to call it. Then there are the illusions of life. The ideas. The lies. The smoke-&-mirrors. We compare whereRead more

Our bodies sustain us. They carry around our hearts and minds and hopes and dreams. They can communicate the most subtle (yet complex) feelings with the blink of an eye and a smile. They rejuvenate themselves when we slumber. They produce enough energy at times, it seems, to light up an entire city or at least get us throughRead more

The older I get and the more I think I know, the more I realize how little I actually do. It’s humbling. Scary. Weird. It’s also epic and beautiful and a point of entry into a world that offers us unlimited potential. But it requires us to go to those places we just don’t want to go. TheRead more

Why do we think everyone else’s life (and therefore, story) is more exciting, hot, popular, interesting, dynamic, or important than our own? Our life’s story ”“ our autobiography ”“ is everything we are pulling from on a day-to-day basis consciously, and unconsciously. It often drives us, creates habits, evokes fears and desires, creates our temperament and work ethic.Read more

What homework are we talking about here? Your algebra test? Your history lesson? Reading the first chapter of you social studies book? Acting. Is. Not. Homework! Nor is character study. You read a scene (or the play). If it’s not written in Swahili, you probably understand what’s going on. The guy is breaking up with his girlfriend.Read more

Do you ever feel stuck? Trapped? Like one of those old-school cartoons where your feet are spinning fast but you remain standing in one place? (Cue sound effect.) Or maybe you feel like you keep returning to a point in life you thought you had departed from years ago. Or maybe you’ve just been feeling for aRead more

What Alan Rickman & David Bowie Taught Us About Acting. We lost two greats from the acting and music world last week. Their insights about creativity and how to be a bad-ass will be missed. David Bowie and Alan Rickman. I thought it was worth sharing some of their inspiring words to help us have greater creativeRead more

How to Win Back Your Power We’ve all been there. In a meeting, negotiating what we want, during an interview or even sometimes in personal relationships. Something is said that makes us lose our centeredness (sometimes for a second, sometimes irreparably) ”“ and we no longer engage in that interaction from a place of empowerment. We start doubtingRead more

6. Worse Case Scenario Exercise. If you were to do the one thing you knew you had to do to get where you wanted to go, what’s the worst thing that could happen? I mean the absolute worst thing? Go ahead and think through the worse case scenario in detail. For example: Let’s say you getRead more