It’s sometimes so hard to maintain our focus. The world is full of so many delicious distractions. It almost seems easier to be preoccupied. Focus requires commitment and dedication. Focus demands our complete, unadulterated attention. Sustained focus is an act of will that delivers us into a channel of flow. Focus moves us from the […]
Have you ever felt supreme resentment over another’s action? How dare they do that to you, you of all people! You have always been there for them. You have sacrificed for them. You have rearranged your life for them. They have the unmitigated gall to ignore, hurt or rebuff you. How could they! Sound familiar? […]
There is a day when you cross a threshold. You walk into another space of consciousness, a place where you decide you have had enough. No more. You are done. Finished. You cannot carry another burden, manage another effort or create another strategy. You have reached a limit; actually, you have surpassed that limit and […]
Are you ready to acknowledge the deep level of fatigue that has settled into your body? You have run hither and thither; you have done this and that; you have been responsible and responsive. You have, on more than one occasion, overdrawn on your reserves. You have no more to give; there is nothing else […]
When our world is out of whack, fragile and upside-down, we desperately go in search of our balance, that je ne sais quoi that helps us refind ourselves and reclaim our respective centers. Balance is a difficult space to inhabit and even more difficult to sustain given our fast-past, Tilt-a-Whirl world and the demands we […]
Do you have a monkey mind that has run amok? Is there lots of chatter ricocheting around your cranium? Is there so much clamor and internal conversation that it’s standing room only in your head? Like the deli counter, do you need to take a number to discern which inner voice has taken over the […]
You’re so hard on yourself. You frequently belittle and second-guess yourself. You didn’t do this right. You forgot to say that. You review prior conversations and practice future ones in your head. You see every gaffe, misstep and wrong word as an unbearable breach. You sometimes embarrass yourself with an outburst or, even worse, a […]
adeleandthepenguin.com/…/MyNDTALK-Balancing-Act.mp3 Hi Lovies, I have decided that summer season is going to focus on balance and coping here on The Penguin. Our world is crazy-fast, filled with lots of incoming, scary news and surreal moments. Finding balance is not a bad idea. To kick off this season of balance, I am going to share a […]
“I believe in aristocracy. . . Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They […]
Being without a mother is special kind of club. Only those that share the experience understand the profound ache for once what was or could have been. Mothers are lost for a myriad of reasons – be it childbirth itself, accident, illness, poverty, circumstances of family, culture, or fate, and the like. Mothers, though physically […]
