Thank you Colin for taking up my question - it means a lot - and linking it to other people’s quests, and turning it into a provoking piece of advice on growing out of old stories - you are so right, our attachment to our old stories are so often limiting us. And Yeahhhh, you are asking me to move beyond the fear of failure or rejection…!! I’ll take it to my heart ❤️🙏🏽
Colin, this is the kind of post that lingers. You took two questions—about love and about shame—and showed they might be the same doorway. That’s wild. And kind of liberating.
This line got me: “Act like the person who gets the dream.” So this week, I did. I asked for things: LinkedIn recommendations, help finding more clients, support rebuilding my CV. I even asked my husband to hold a bigger vision with me—for both of us.
Also—honest question for anyone reading: What story does your shame keep telling you, and what might happen if you stopped believing it?
Thank you, Colin. I love this post. After many years of traumatic adventures gone terribly wrong, I no longer know what I want. I think I deeply buried the part of myself that had dreams and desires, and I can't seem to find it anymore. I don't know where to begin, but I like what you said about the stories that bring ease, expansion and pleasure in my body. I'm hoping that if I focus on that, the answer will come to me in meditation.
I loved this. Felt so great to read and to be dropped squarely into the energy of heartfelt joyful creation — In touch with the True self and living/creating from that awareness rather than the limiting made up stories that can run the show. Felt great to read. Thank you for putting it into words And writing a dating column. 😀😍
I think this post has good things to say about acting with courage. I also have a few places where I'm unsure. In my particular case, I don't feel like I want specific things - what I want is a life of peace, laughter, companionship, and joyful surprises without injustice or environmental destruction. I'm not so concerned about the details. My other concern is about the scaling up society-wide of some of the behaviors - it seems like yesterday's bold move becomes tomorrow's irritating pushiness. If this kind of boldness becomes commonplace, what will happen to people who really want to go about their business in public without being frequently interrupted by people who want something from them? Especially people with a lot of sensory sensitivity and/or difficulty with focus switching?
I saw this recently: "Shame is a bit like mushrooms. It lives in the dark and feeds on bullshit."
Thank you Colin for taking up my question - it means a lot - and linking it to other people’s quests, and turning it into a provoking piece of advice on growing out of old stories - you are so right, our attachment to our old stories are so often limiting us. And Yeahhhh, you are asking me to move beyond the fear of failure or rejection…!! I’ll take it to my heart ❤️🙏🏽
Colin, this is the kind of post that lingers. You took two questions—about love and about shame—and showed they might be the same doorway. That’s wild. And kind of liberating.
This line got me: “Act like the person who gets the dream.” So this week, I did. I asked for things: LinkedIn recommendations, help finding more clients, support rebuilding my CV. I even asked my husband to hold a bigger vision with me—for both of us.
Also—honest question for anyone reading: What story does your shame keep telling you, and what might happen if you stopped believing it?
Thank you, Colin. I love this post. After many years of traumatic adventures gone terribly wrong, I no longer know what I want. I think I deeply buried the part of myself that had dreams and desires, and I can't seem to find it anymore. I don't know where to begin, but I like what you said about the stories that bring ease, expansion and pleasure in my body. I'm hoping that if I focus on that, the answer will come to me in meditation.
I loved this. Felt so great to read and to be dropped squarely into the energy of heartfelt joyful creation — In touch with the True self and living/creating from that awareness rather than the limiting made up stories that can run the show. Felt great to read. Thank you for putting it into words And writing a dating column. 😀😍
I think this post has good things to say about acting with courage. I also have a few places where I'm unsure. In my particular case, I don't feel like I want specific things - what I want is a life of peace, laughter, companionship, and joyful surprises without injustice or environmental destruction. I'm not so concerned about the details. My other concern is about the scaling up society-wide of some of the behaviors - it seems like yesterday's bold move becomes tomorrow's irritating pushiness. If this kind of boldness becomes commonplace, what will happen to people who really want to go about their business in public without being frequently interrupted by people who want something from them? Especially people with a lot of sensory sensitivity and/or difficulty with focus switching?