Your Compass
Last week I said, “If you know where you are and know where you want to go, if you have a map and a compass, you can effectively navigate the swamp.” Here’s the model I propose for a compass: Last […]
August 2020
Navigating the Swamp
I’m struggling to write about how to navigate the swamp, because it’s such an intensely personal experience, much more so than YMMV. What it feels like, how long it lasts, the questions that pester like mosquitos—all of it comes from
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The Whole Self
The Swamp works on the whole self—spiritual, physical, mental, emotional. Have you ever been in a canoe, and forgotten you were in a canoe, and stood to the side of the canoe, and fallen out of the canoe? The Swamp
The Swamp
The Swamp calls the shots. The Swamp works on its own time, not ours, and in its own way, not ours. How long we spend in The Swamp is usually determined by how willing we are to honor The Swamp.
Renaming The Neutral Zone
William Bridges’ model and his book label the phase between Endings and New Beginnings, ‘The Neutral Zone.’ ‘The Neutral Zone’ is such a clean and clinical term, midway between positive and negative. I think Bridges wimped out by giving such
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