Are you over-ing, especially in your career arena?
Are you someone who over-does, over-commits, over-functions?
Are you ready to stop romanticizing work as your main identity?
Over-ing has REAL health consequences and keeps you out of living your true ambition of impact and goodness in the world. This is one of the messages of don’t be 2016 me.

Taking on other’s work as a Rescuer gave me a temporary rush of purpose and service followed by lots of guilt, worry, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. What it never did was give them the tools to engage in more effective behaviors, or change how they worked or prioritized tasks, or even how to make more value aligned choices.

Autumn has a rich, juicy invitation to transformation. Autumn is a liminal space. [Don’t you just love that word, liminal, liminality] Autumn is the threshold between the growth and abundance of summer and the inner, restorative nature of wintering.

Did you know that we, humans, express 38% of emotional meaning through tone and rhythm of voice and only 7% through our actual words.* All the rest is done through body language. On my quest, I saw clearly my old ingrained pattern of “go along, to get along” through some of the practices we were invited to embody. Practices that asked our soul and true self to step into and share out with others we had just met.

I’m going to talk about Experimental Threshold Crossings (ETC’s) as one tool or practice to support change and to play with living your authentic voice. It’s about nudges - little actions - taken from the standpoint of your vision self. Little nudges every day will shift and build up over time. It’s a practice.

Part of the quest was 4 days of solo fasting (only water to drink) time. I knew that would be challenging all on its own. Combine that with torrential mountain thunderstorms, hail, swaying old trees surrounding me to really place the inner fears smack out in front to be faced.

I stepped back a little in my blogging and outreach this past month because I’ve been preparing for BIG transformation. When I’m in that space, I step inward. I even start organizing and purging the house — I imagine that’s an outward manifestation of what’s happening inside.

Earth Day is coming up and is a time to remind us that our climate crisis is a justice issue. Climate change disproportionately affects women and nonbinary folks, children and elderly, and BIPOC folks.