What if I wrote a book about Freedom from Self-Improvement?
After talking to Keri Smith last week – every month I invite a wise person to have a conversation with us at the Comfort Cafe – I started to dream of a Keri-style book about getting free from this insidious idea there is something to be [...]

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A sometimes Wednesday happening in which I dissolve posting flummoxia by posting a a jambalaya, a comfort basket, a wiry fankle (a Scottish word that means a tangle or a state of confusion), a bit of this and tad of that.
As you probably know, Freedom from Self-Improvement was last week and I humbly submit it was as blustery of [...]

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Wow, what a wonderful week. What fun to see the freedom created by remembering we don’t have to improve ourselves to be.
We are.
I found myself feeling like I was on retreat all week. I’d stop and ask myself, “Why this feeling?” Then I’d remember Freedom from Self-Improvement, and that I don’t have to do anything, [...]

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In the last few months, people at my retreats, new coaching clients, and friends have revealed to me they are in debt because of buying this marketing program or that self-help 20 CD-and-workbook product for the low, low price of $9,000,000.
This makes me cranky and frankly, angry.
Yes, I know, it’s our responsibility to not get [...]

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