by Meredith Walters | Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, Common Challenges, Fear
“Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It’s the kind of place we usually want to avoid… Becoming intimate with the queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere only makes our hearts more tender…By not knowing, not only hoping to know, and...
by Meredith Walters | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Fear, How to Make Decisions
“Resistance obstructs movements only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a higher station morally, ethically, or spiritually. So if you’re in Calcutta working with the...
by Meredith Walters | Sep 30, 2015 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges, Fear, How to Make Decisions
I’ve always found decisions stressful, probably because I’m usually trying to find the right answer. That’s how I know that having options can feel just as stressful as not having any if none of them feel right. I meet people all the time who are incredibly...
by Meredith Walters | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Common Challenges, Fear
I was talking to a client recently who had a sense that what she really wanted was simply not possible for her. Either her dream job didn’t exist or she didn’t have the qualifications for it or there was no way it would pay her enough to live on. She could think of a...
by Meredith Walters | Feb 3, 2015 | Blog, Career Change, Fear
You want to make a change. You really do. It’s just that you don’t want to make a change that you’ll regret. How do you know this is what you really want? You thought the jobs you took up to now would make you happy, and they didn’t. Who’s to say the next job you...
by Meredith Walters | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog, Common Challenges, Fear
When I was in high school, I wrote a story about monsters that shared the simple secret to dealing with fear. It’s called Little Mae Clark Is Afraid of the Dark. In the story, Little Mae Clark is watching the shadows, waiting for them to turn into monsters. Monsters,...