The Very Rev. Jim Kowalski joins Frank in the episode discussing shame and guilt, what they are, how they differ, and how to handle these universal and difficult imposters.

Living a whole life, living wholeheartedly, is living from the center of our being. Called by different names—the Self, the soul, our quintessential Nature—our center is the organizing faculty for our whole being. What are we living for, hoping for, caring deeply about? Our answers indicate what our lives center on and center in.

In most of our minds "creativity" is something that we imagine the artistic and inventive to own. This episode, with California artisit Richard Fox, delves into how creativity is something that all humans have evolved to do and to share. Our conversation takes a fresh look at how we can find, incorporate, and practice the principles of creativity in all parts of our lives.

Who are the people in your life who have taught you, counseled you, guided you? What are the secrets of being a good mentor, qualities that we can practice as we guide our children, our friends, and others?

We cannot always stop the things that interrupt our lives, pulling us off track, interrupting our plans and impeding us from reaching out goals. We do have choices as to how we respond to such derailments. Listen and find out ways to refigure and respond to some of your greatest challenges.

In this, the fourth episode of the series "Your Story,," we examine some of the persons in our lives, both past and present, both negative and positive influences, who comprise the "audience" of the play we are performing that is called "My Life.."

Sections of the track include:

• Who is the audience we are performing for?
• Pleasing the internalized will of the audience
• Sometimes we show the audience we're unlike them!
• What are we getting out of our performances?
• Healthy people live in positive relationships
• Reeling back to ourselves our projections
• Learning how to live our own unique lives
• You have the Creator's stamp in your very being
• The joy of living is discovering our gifts

In the course of his video, the following resources are mentioned:

https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/

https://www.thehumanpotentialists.com/

(book) The Wisdom of the Enneagruam

From earliest memories to the most recent events, our personal stories are wrapped up with the stories of all human beings. Some are quite intimate and personal to us. Others are macro-stories and meta-narratives that include everyone in our species. This is the second in a series exploring how our stories hold the keys to our discovery and appropriation of all parts of ourselves in a self-consistent whole.

This is the second is a series exploring our stories from many angles.

SECTIONS

Macro-stories and Metanarratives

The Story Field

Choosing a Story

Stories are Key to Spirituality

Becoming Conscious of Our Stories

Stories that Survive and Revive

From earliest memories to the most recent events, our personal stories are wrapped up with the stories of all human beings. Some are quite intimate and personal to us. Others are macro-stories and meta-narratives that include everyone in our species. This is the second in a series exploring how our stories hold the keys to our discovery and appropriation of all parts of ourselves in a self-consistent whole.

SECTIONS

Macro-stories and Metanarratives

The Story Field

Choosing a Story

Stories are Key to Spirituality

Becoming Conscious of Our Stories

Stories that Survive and Revive

The easiest way to get a grip on claiming our own wholeness is to begin with our stories. Our origins shape us. But the shape into which they mold us is not impervious to change. We get to decide what we want to hold on to and what we want to let go of as we move forward into living freer, happier, more rewarding lives.