Finding New Perspective in Mentoring
As I continue to grow and evolve in my own recovery journey, I am struck time and again by how freely and enthusiastically (whether invited to do so or not) others weigh in on what they think I should...
View ArticleLoneliness as a Mentor
In her book “When Things Fall Apart”, Pema Chodron likens sitting with our own loneliness to going into detox. “Boy, that doesn’t sound like fun!” I thought when I first read her words. But it sure...
View ArticleMoods as a Mentor
I have discovered many things in my post-recovered years (that is, in the years since my dependence on my eating disordered thoughts and behaviors subsided for a sustained period of time). For...
View ArticleThe Mentor in Our Own Presence
Earlier this week I blogged about Dr. Marsha Linehan‘s stunning (yet somehow not surprising) admission that she has had personal experience with the disease her professional reputation has been built...
View ArticleFinding the Weathervane in Mentoring
I have learned lately that life itself rarely gets easier. But our ease with life’s hard times can. When I was younger I had a fascination with comparative religion. I was just sure that the cure for...
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