Oriah Mountain Dreamer is a Canadian poet, storyteller, and spiritual teacher facilitating personal growth and self-inquiry, most famous for her prose poem “The Invitation.”
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Sex and the Spiritual Teacher looks at the complex of forces that tempt otherwise insightful, compassionate, and well-intentioned teachers to lose their way—and that tempt some of their students to lose their way as well.
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The respected Tibetan teacher Mingyur Rinpoche explains Vajrayana ethics, how to find a genuine teacher, and what to do if a teacher crosses the line.
Within every community, toxic people can be found hiding in families, couples, companies, and places of worship. The cryptic nature of psychological abuse involves repetitious mind games played by one individual or a group of people. Psychological abuse leaves no bruises. There are no broken bones.
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Boundaries are what happen when you can sense yourself and what you need and want and access your voice to speak to those things.
Boundaries can help you retain a sense of identity and personal space, and they’re easier to create and maintain than you might think.
Our familial relationships can lay the groundwork for how we communicate in many of our other relationships. Here’s how to course-correct when things have gotten toxic with a family member.
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In this book, master coach, speaker, and author Nancy Levin will help you establish clear and healthy boundaries. This isn’t easy; many of us don’t want to “rock the boat.” We assume setting boundaries will lead to conflict.
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have them—in order to achieve work/life balance, cope with toxic people, and enjoy rewarding relationships with partners, friends, and family.
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After growing up in a household with extremely loose emotional boundaries, I soon learned the importance of establishing my own personal boundaries as quickly and clearly as possible. And, in recent years, I have even managed to become more eloquent about when and how to set them.
This is how resentment feels like. Distant. Mad. Disappointed. . We can get it by receiving continual demeaning comments or by the unreasonable demands of a boss, a parent or a partner. . “I just don’t know how to rid myself of this resentment!” - is a cry I hear too often.
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