Rage is a very complicated emotion that is commonly understood as a part of our flight or flight response to the world; we go into a rage as a defensive move in order to protect ourselves from danger. However, danger is subjective. While we can all agree that running into a bear in the woods is dangerous, we don't all...
This afternoon we had a little personal graduation ceremony for our daughter outside of our home with some friends. I gave a short speech about ritual and transitions that I wanted to share here. Her speech was great and we are very proud of her. I grew up in this house and I graduated from high school over 30 years ago....
The first line of "All The Rage," our film about the work of Dr John Sarno, is, "The Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves shape our sense of who we are." The first lines of any story are the foundation for that tale, and this insight into how much our perspective shapes our narrative is central to the story of...
Recently I offered to do a workshop for Sidewalk Film Festival. They asked me to focus on distribution since we have distributed all of our own films. A while ago I wrote a post called "Lessons Learned" about the the lessons we learned from making each film. This post shares some themes, but it is a bit more practical in...
A few weeks ago I had drafted this post about how our learned defensive behaviors might make us feel safer but often at the expense of connection. Finding a way to be present and aware, so that when a threat arises we are able to respond to it is preferable to being on guard. I sat down to edit it...
I started going to yoga classes last year, and over time, it has become an integral part of my life. There are times in our lives when we try to do something new and it doesn't stick. A few years later, we might try it again and still find it doesn't seem right for us. Then, at some point, we...