Then Again, What Do We Know?

Is growth up to us?

What if we’re made to grow?

What if growth doesn’t need to be pushed or forced?

Expanding by looking, wondering and sharing

Cool byproducts of exploring and expressing

What if growth is a wider and wider lens of awareness?

What if playing in the wonder is more than enough?

Can we stop ourselves from growing?

Tuning into inklings as a catalyst for growth

A lesson from the flowers

What if decision making is naturally effortless?

What if we notice rather than decide?

What if not knowing yet can be totally satisfying?

The unhelpful pressure of finding the “right” answer

What if we just overcomplicate decisions that seem more important?

Noticing where all our “doing” actually comes from

The millions of things happening beyond our conscious choices

Playing in the mystery of free will

The innocence of always doing what makes sense to us in the moment

Our cool capacity to see more in any moment

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” - Rumi

How much we think about our body and how little we need to 

Do bodies need managing and solutions? 

Is our body in our way?

What if bodies are REALLY not separate from the intelligence of life?

Pinning our body up against the wall

Presence and listening with our body, without agenda

Riding the possibility of Alzheimers or cancer down the road…

The rabbit hole of thinking about our appearance

Rethinking the positive body movement

What if exercise is play?

What if our body isn’t us and isn’t ours?

“You are a ghost driving a meat-covered skeleton made of stardust. What do you have to be afraid of?” -Anonymous

“Out beyond all ideas of wrongdoing and righting there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”  -Rumi

Why Brianne wrote the book now, in the middle of her Mom’s journey

A look at the book’s title

The first moment Brianne’s mom didn’t know who she was

What about the worst part of it, the painful parts?

How has Brianne’s relationship with suffering changed?

Why love doesn’t care how you feel

What about Brianne’s forgetting and remembering?

Deeper intimacy and connection in the face of so much loss

Brianne turns her mom into a metaphor of what life is

Finding a newer, deeper center of balance

Palm trees and wind storms

What’s left when it all gets stripped away?

Brianne’s hope for the book

What if feeling uncomfortable isn’t a bad thing?

What if discomfort isn’t personal?

Being comfortable with being uncomfortable

Listening without our shield of ideas

What if discomfort is a side effect of life rearranging itself?

Moving from coping to opening

What if discomfort is an invitation, a doorway?

Looking through discomfort rather than at it

Being in conversation with life instead of ourselves

What if discomfort is life’s way of asking, “Wanna talk about it?”

We are always in progress

The “It’s not fast enough” thought

What if self sabotage isn’t a real thing?

Grace with the unpredictable pace of life

Marking progress as a tool in the game

Respect and appreciation for the unknown

Does life make it’s own progress?

The dance of giving something our time and attention

Suffering from an overinflated sense of “I” 

Beating ourselves up with what we make up

Why does nothing require our worry?

A look at the words, “giving” and “up”

Giving up as a strategy versus getting to the end of your rope

Does life work on stuff when we don’t?

Genuine giving up, without strings or agendas

What about the saying, “Never give up!”?

Dancing between making stuff happen and giving up

What if the only thing we can really give up is a thought?

How recognition of truth soothes our soul

The gift of awareness and noticing

The Perfume of Silence by Francis Lucille

Faith as an awareness of knowing 

Faith versus desperate hoping

Exploring faith through existential crisis and religion

Faith in what’s behind and before “everything”

What if faith is just a side effect?

Why we can’t “do” faith

Faith as sustenance

The game of growing faith

The gift of having less and less faith in ourselves

Life moving us versus us moving life

A fresh take on moving mountains

What isn’t spiritual? 

Why we go spiritually seeking

Stepping back into action after spiritual epiphanies 

The interplay of spiritual seeking and physical action 

Noticing we’re ready for a new adventure

Being pushed or being moved to step into new circles

Getting too caught up with ourselves and our own journey

Playing full out in the world, knowing where we can rest

Looking from the mountaintop, playing in the valley

Putting our hands in the clay of life

Are funks really a problem?

Being aware we’re lost in a funk

Can life still make stuff happen, even in a funk?

Grace to let ourselves be human

What if we’re not really checked out, we just think we are?

Taking our hands off the wheel

Life doesn’t need to be understood to be be fully lived

Thought is not reality, but our reality is made of thought

Glimpsing reality beyond the world we walk around in in our heads

A fresh look at our role in the art of life

Existing is so weird and cool

Netflix show that mentioned rainbows: Abstract - The Art of Design; Season 2, Episode 1 - Olafur Eliasson