by Jule Kucera | Aug 23, 2020 | Blog
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 within, not from without. If you...
by Jule Kucera | Aug 16, 2020 | Blog
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 teaches awareness. And balance. I drew this diagram a...
by Jule Kucera | Aug 9, 2020 | Blog
Photo by Piotr Szulawski, @brodatofotografia 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. We can’t rush through The...
by Jule Kucera | Aug 2, 2020 | Blog
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 an innocuous label to such...
