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188: Rythea Lee Uses Humor to Help Us Heal Self-Hatred

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188: Rythea Lee Uses Humor to Help Us Heal Self-Hatred
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CSW 188: Rythea Lee Uses Humor to Help Us Heal Self-HatredRythea Lee is a professional dancer and multi-disciplinary artist giving voice to personal and shared stories of healing. She’s an author, a singer-songwriter, a painter, a poet, and an all-around creative devotee. Her online show, Advice From a Loving Bitch, is her newest passion, teaching people to heal self-hatred through humor and emotional education.

Rythea is a proud Mom, a teacher of Peer to Peer Counseling, a trauma therapist for 24 years. She loves to help people free themselves and become fully expressive. She does this through her own rigorous inner work and through modeling courage. [Read more…]

Choosing Where to Focus

Doodle - 12/20/18

Winter Solstice is here! The longest night of the year.

I’ve become quite the morning person, much to my surprise, given that not so long ago my regular bedtime was 2am!

Aiaiai!

That’s hard for me to imagine now, as I typically wake up in the velvety depths of 6:30am — or even 5:30am, as I did this morning — and do my shoulder rehab exercises while it’s still dark outside.

I actually love getting up early. It affords me time to do my full morning ritual:

  • Stretching in bed
  • Strength training (the aforementioned shoulder rehab)
  • Meditation (usually 10 minutes)
  • Hip flexor stretch
  • Writing in my journal
  • Doodling! (That’s my creative sandbox playtime 🙂 )

Then lately I’ve been doing vocal exercises while I [Read more…]

171: My Painful Wake-Up Call

CSW 171: My Painful Wake-Up Call
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171: My Painful Wake-Up Call
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Note: For the fullest experience, I recommend listening to the podcast, as the audio version always contains additional comments and tangents not found in the blog post version.

CSW 171: My Painful Wake-Up CallPeople who know me often tell me that I have a lot of energy.

“You’re like the Energizer Bunny!” they say. “How do you get so much done?”

But that’s what it looks like from the outside.

And that’s when things are normal.

And things have definitely not been normal lately.

What you don’t know is that for the past month, with I believe three exceptions, I have had a migraine, or at least the start of migraine symptoms, every single day.

Now, I should clarify [Read more…]

LCN 132: A Gentle Reminder that Falling Off the Wagon Is Not the Problem

LCN 132: A Gentle Reminder That Falling Off the Wagon Is Not the Problem
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LCN 132: A Gentle Reminder that Falling Off the Wagon Is Not the Problem
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LCN 132: A Gentle Reminder That Falling Off the Wagon Is Not the ProblemLast week I was out of the country, in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia, getting 40 hours of training in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods and materials.

What is LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®? It’s an amazing methodology with a wide range of applications that yes, uses LEGO® bricks, to get people thinking with their hands.

I first encountered LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at a one-day workshop at the Creative Problem Solving Institute, an annual conference in Buffalo, New York, last June, and I was so blown away by that experience that I signed up for the advanced certification in the methodology with Master Trainer, Jacquie Lloyd Smith, of Strategic Play® (tell her I sent you!).

(If you’d like to hear more about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, I had Jacquie on the podcast recently, episode 128, so check that out.)

Anyway, this episode isn’t about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, although that was the entire focus of my last week, and I could happily talk about it for hours.

What I want to talk about is the byproduct of that: falling off the wagon.

Because I was so intensely focused on my training, and on connecting with the other people in my classes when we weren’t in class, that my daily doodles just flew out the window. [Read more…]

LCN 129: My Yom Kippur Screwup (Or How to Make a Not-So-Awesome Experience Awesome)

LCN 129: My Yom Kippur Screwup (Or How to Make a Not-So-Awesome Experience Awesome)
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LCN 129: My Yom Kippur Screwup (Or How to Make a Not-So-Awesome Experience Awesome)
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LCN 129: My Yom Kippur Screwup (Or How to Make a Not-So-Awesome Experience Awesome)Last Saturday was Yom Kippur, and just like every year, I co-led the 3 1/2 hour service with another lay leader at my synagogue.

Neither of us is a rabbi, or a cantor, but every year we get to “play one on TV” for the crowd who shows up for High Holy Days.

Because that’s the relationship that most American Jews have with synagogues: they show up once a year for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (collectively known as the High Holy Days).

And that has become my own relationship with my synagogue: I show up and lead services.

Usually I get together with my co-leader a few weeks in advance to go over the service, plan out who’s going to do what, put sticky notes in my book, remind myself of the melodies, and basically rehearse.

But this year there was no  [Read more…]

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