Tag: communication
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New pasture for the horses.
The neighbor behind us used to have sheep in this pasture. Unfortunately the sheep were killed by coyotes and the pasture has been farrow for a few years. I finally got a hold of our neighbor and he said I could use the pasture for our horses. I built a little gate and let them…
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Finding Our True Heroic Selves!
Healing is all about digging deeper and deeper and looking into the shadowy corners to shed light on everything and create healing. Today I did some more digging. What I found may resonate with someone out there. I woke feeling stressed again. “Why do I feel stressed?” I wondered. “Time to focus,” I sighed. “How…
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Do Ya Ever Just Not Wanna Get Outta Bed? “Focusing” Will Tell You Why.
That’s how I felt this morning. I was rested but just didn’t want to face the day. There was nothing pressing I had to do for anyone else, but I felt stressed and awful! I decided to do the focusing meditation Tom Brown Jr., my teacher at Trackerschool, taught me, to separate the individual emotions that…
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Do Ya Ever Just Not Wanna Get Outta Bed? "Focusing" Will Tell You Why.
That’s how I felt this morning. I was rested but just didn’t want to face the day. There was nothing pressing I had to do for anyone else, but I felt stressed and awful! I decided to do the focusing meditation Tom Brown Jr., my teacher at Trackerschool, taught me, to separate the individual emotions that…
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Is Someone Shoulding on you? Are You Shoulding on Yourself?
One of the words Patricia Evans talks about in her book “The Verbally Abusive Relationship” is the word “should”. To tell someone they “should” do this, or “should” do that, is a controlling way of communicating. Shoulding is of the ways we abuse ourselves and others. Shoulding suggests shame if you don’t do what you…
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“The Verbally Abusive Relationship” By Patricia Evans : A Book Review
In the last 5-6 years I have been working diligently to over come verbal abuse in all it’s forms in my life through clear communication. For some people, like me, clear communication was blocked by my fear (see the next blog on fear). But now, after coming through such a great learning of life’s lessons,…
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"The Verbally Abusive Relationship" By Patricia Evans : A Book Review
In the last 5-6 years I have been working diligently to over come verbal abuse in all it’s forms in my life through clear communication. For some people, like me, clear communication was blocked by my fear (see the next blog on fear). But now, after coming through such a great learning of life’s lessons,…
Michele Ballantyne 