Insight-Clarity-Growth Blog- Resistance August 23, 20203 min read Last year I read a book called Resisting Happiness1. I found the title intriguing. Why would anyone resist happiness? Doesn’t everyone want to be happy? Well yes, but apparently resistance stands between us and happiness and the … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- I Can’t Know May 16, 20201 min read A few days ago I woke up anxious about something. Given our current COVID-19 state of affairs, I just couldn’t see how a particular scenario was going to turn out well. I started going down a nasty … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Now April 14, 20201 min read So still struggling at times. Before the pandemic I was finding my way through grief and mourning. My father passed away last June, my last living aunt died in January, and my eldest sister passed on March … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Struggling April 2, 20201 min. read I’m struggling with this new normal. At times I’m fine and getting on with my life – such as it is. At other times I’m sad for no particular reason – just feeling sad. Life has changed. … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Loving Fear March 1, 20204 min read I recently participated in a Writing and SoulCollage® workshop exploring the Shadow, “the realm of the unclaimed parts of ourselves, waiting to be known and received for the gifts and energy they hold”1. I know – very … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Living Small January 15, 20204 min read I recently read Amanda Lang’s The Beauty of Discomfort. She explains that “As we learn to lean into our discomfort, it will gradually turn into comfort. Our zone of discomfort moves, in other words, as our comfort … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Labyrinth of Life November 5, 20194 min read Several months ago, about three weeks before my dad died, a friend and I walked a small stone labyrinth close to my home. I’d never walked a labyrinth before but thought I was familiar with the concept. … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Allowing January 12, 20194 min read I attended a meditation retreat last summer and heard the poem She Let Go by Safire Rose for the first time. This beautiful poem resonated so deeply with me that I printed it out and put it … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- I Said What? July 19, 20184 min read Today is my mother-in-law’s 90th birthday. Joyce passed away two years ago. I still miss her no-nonsense, real way of looking at life. We didn’t always see eye to eye but now that she is gone I … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Listen May 9, 20184 min read Sometimes innocuous things scare me. Poetry was one of those things. My fear dates back to high school when we had to read poems I didn’t understand, composed of elements I didn’t understand. Iambic pentameter comes to … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
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Savour Life
3 min read I went through a very busy period last year. I was quickly moving from one task to the next, always rushing and often trying to do more than one thing at once. It was stressful and tiring … Continue reading
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Tagged insight clarity growth, Lisa Ivaldi, mindfulness
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You Can’t Know!
4 min read When my daughter was little she used to say “I can’t know” instead of “I don’t know”. It was very cute – “Where’s your teddy bear?” – “I can’t know!” However, over the years I have come … Continue reading
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Lighten Up
3 min read This year I have been reading Pema Chödrön’s Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion. I try and read one of the teachings each morning before I get up. Number 29 struck home so … Continue reading
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Focus on What You Want
3 min read Back in July 2011 I wrote a blog post about Setting Your Intentions. The general idea was to focus on what you do want and not on what you don’t want. Sounds simple enough, but it is … Continue reading
Illusion
3 min read I recently read an email from my sister-in-law where she mentioned her “baby food processor”. When I jokingly wrote back that I wasn’t even going to ask why my babyless sister-in-law had a baby food processor, I found … Continue reading
Are you excited?
2 min read My 15 year old daughter is always asking me if I am excited about things that are coming up. Even though I am usually looking forward to whatever it is that she is asking about, I can … Continue reading
Preconceptions
3 min read Preconceptions … we all have them, about everything – that guy looks mean, she looks smart, that course will be hard, that jacket will be expensive. We form a judgement “in advance of adequate knowledge or experience” – the … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarity, Growth, Insight, limiting beliefs, Lisa Ivaldi, perception, preconceptions
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Me and My Shadow
3 min read Up until a year or two ago, I had an idea or a mental image of how I should look that was nothing like I actually looked. I had it in my head that other people all … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarity, Growth, Insight, Lisa Ivaldi, self-image, shadow, The tools
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Choose to be Happy
2 min read We recently watched a movie called Small Apartments. It was pretty offbeat but I’m really glad we watched it because at the very end there was a real nugget of wisdom in the form of a man’s advice to his younger brother: … Continue reading
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Tagged choose to be happy, Clarity, control, Growth, happiness, Insight, Lisa Ivaldi
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Incremental Change
3 min read Change can be overwhelming. We look at where we are and where we want to be and the gap can seem huge and insurmountable. That’s why, many times, we don’t even try. We can’t. The change appears … Continue reading
