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Climb the Ladder. Choose your Pain

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Choose Your Pain. Climb the Ladder. I am inspired to write this based in part on my current favorite book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.   A Spiritual Journey is usually framed as a kind of grandiose romantic “calling” that requires little effort other than “listening” to your “guides” and preaching to an audience that usually turns out to be people who already agree with you or want to agree with you. People don’t like to disagree, or experience what they call “negativity”. This is the era of toxic positivity, part of the new age industry. In reality, nothing is all good, or all bad. And everything has pain. If you rise to success, you suffer the loss of friends and a simpler life as responsibilities and pressures increase. If you choose to leave a relationship that is no longer good for you, you will face the pain of loss and some loneliness even though you have left behind the disrespect of not being valued, or even the pain of abuse. This irreverent and timely ...

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck This title is a book by Marc Manson and the second book this month to make me very happy. (The first book being Why won’t you apologize by Harriet Lerner). The content is dead on for one (of many many) aspects of healing and moving forward in your life. It does not address deep healing, the depth of childhood issues, or energy, or past lives, or resolving conflicts etc etc. It does address some of the dysfunctional behaviors of the new age industry and self-esteem culture that are current in this era and that is both stimulating food for thought and also desperately needed viewpoints to balance out some of the ill effects of  present day cultural trends. I hope you will take a read/listen and when you do, take the best, and leave the rest (as I always advise.) On another completely different point, the style of writing is so straight forward and direct and blunt that it calmed me down because I live in an area of the country where th...