Latest from Susan Young
Recently, I was facilitating the silent retreat day for our 8-week Mindfulness Program at Janati Yoga School. During the walking meditation, I noticed the hole in the left big toe of my black sock. And in a breath, felt exposed. As though people would notice the raw hole in my soul instead of the hole in my sock.
What is Life Coaching? And how it helped me to change….People have been asking me a lot recently: What exactly is Life Coaching? And how is it different than counselling or therapy? I first found life coaching two years ago after an intense transition……
I had an intense and awe filled experience kayaking on windy Georgian Bay this past summer with a dear heart friend. The round rocks, the bent pines and ……
When I was 8 or 9, how I loved whirling around in circles with my friends until we fell down, laughing hilariously. I would lie there, looking up at the sky, then impatiently leap up and do it all over again. I loved whirling. At the time, I didn’t know that I would chase the lonely ache of whirling for …
Like many of us, I am preparing to create my 2016 New Year’s Vision. Although grounded with intentions and resolutions, I am leaping this year or “wing walking”, as my dear friend Lise calls it. Moving from one plane …
When I first read that Pema Chodron says “Abandon hope”, (from her book When Things Fall Apart), I thought it was silly. But when we live in perpetual hope, she says, we also have …
Jon Kabat Zinn, creator and founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) [http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/], author of 11 books. in Full Catastrophe Living (1996) says: “Mindfulness is awareness that arises by paying attention on …
This past several weeks, the sexual assault and harassment of women has risen to the top in Canada, with thanks to Jian Ghomeshi. CBC is taking the allegations seriously, as is the …
