Tag Archives: rest

A Resting Revolution: Insight from Martha

So, as you know, if you’ve been following my writing and coaching, I’m heavily into helping people reclaim their “true nature.” It is what I’ve always done, but with a new sense of purpose and urgency as change begins to make our habitual ways of behaving obsolete and counterproductive. I frequently review a list of “brain - Continue Reading

Follow the Rhythm of Your Destiny: Insight from Martha

Yes, yes, yes!  I am sill working on a book!    Oh, I know I’ve been working on it for years, and I know I keep saying it’s almost done.  It is almost done, dammit!  But book writing is an incredibly slow process, and I can be “almost finished” for months or (please God no) even years. The problem - Continue Reading

I Rest My Pace…Insight From Martha

This week I sliced my thumb nearly to the bone, smashed my knee so hard my head exploded, bought $400 worth of software it turned out I did not need, and spent one long day griping at everyone I saw. This, gentle reader, does not fulfill my self-help motto “live it to give it.” 
 
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How You Got Here Is How You Walk Here

My friend Dan believes that our whole lives are metaphorically prefigured in the story of our respective births. I’ve been asking everyone, to see if I agree, and I have to admit Dan has a point. My own birth was pretty normal except that I was huge—10 pounds, 14 ounces. Eight years later, when I - Continue Reading

Give It A Rest — And See What Happens…Insight from Martha

Warning to all those who think that resting is out of the question when you’ve got goals to achieve! Last June, I began getting an insistent message from a variety of sources telling me that the time has come for those who wish to heal the world to paradoxically move forward through rest. I have - Continue Reading