let’s reconnect with those three fear-based questions that keep us on in a prey mentality: What do I do so that I’m not uncomfortable? What do I do so that I don’t risk losing something I care about? What do I do so that I don’t look like a bozo?

When you are attached to staying in control, you are betraying the part of yourself that is fearless.

As we mature into adulthood, we all develop a persona, an artificial interface with which we engage the world. This acknowledgment is a call to let that persona rest. It is an experiment to see what happens when we disentangle ourselves from that projection of the one who has it all together, the one who is always positive, always working hard, alw

That is why the mask self is always the first part of ourselves to collapse in a crisis. Crisis often brings with it the feeling of a loss of identity; in fact crisis is often nature’s way of helping us to come off the shaky pedestal of trying to be someone we are not. Crisis stirs up the stagnant energy trapped in an idealized version of ourselves