by Rebekkah LaDyne | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kindness. It sometimes feels like a “have to” or a “should.” Forced kindness can feel terrible and can evoke the thought of laying myself down at the feet of someone harsh and uncaring, and saying, “No, really. I don’t mind. You can walk on me–I like...
by Rebekkah LaDyne | Feb 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am running errands, driving to REI to return some uncomfortable hiking pants. It is a very average day. I’m listening to a talk about mindful parenting with Jack Kornfield. He is telling a story of a mother speaking very harshly to her child. The mother in Jack’s...
by Rebekkah LaDyne | Feb 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I overheard some women talking in a café. They were swapping stories about their neighbors. Apparently one of the women has a neighbor, as she described it, with “a slight case of obsessive-compulsive disorder”… “She keeps her yard immaculate”. She continued to say. ...
by Rebekkah LaDyne | Jan 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I spent “a week in paradise” over the winter holidays… you might think, as I did, that this would be a week full of relaxation and Peace and a general feeling of “everything is great”. Well it was… some of the time… other times it was a tug of war in my mind and the...
by Rebekkah LaDyne | Dec 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
My friend joked with me recently, when I told her about a big project I am working on, “Don’t you think you are being an overachiever?” I bet that many of us can answer “YES” to that question about some, or maybe even many, areas of our lives. Is this striving habit...
by Rebekkah LaDyne | Dec 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Many of us feel stressed during the holidays. We feel family pressure, social pressure, stress about gifts, stress about resolutions… Just last week, while at a holiday gathering I felt the familiar feeling of what I call “leaving yourself” this is when my inner...
