by Brenda MacIntyre | May 2, 2017 | Resilience
I’ve got enough strikes against me in life that it actually does blow my own mind sometimes that I’m still going, that I have never given up and that I have found ways to bring joy into my life. I was bullied growing up, both my parents died when I was a teenager,...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Jan 31, 2017 | Resilience
Dark Nights of the Soul are not exactly sought after experiences. I have had 7 major ones and several minor ones, plus living through this strange era of the 2020s, which is a global Dark Night of the Soul. For most Dark Nights of the Soul, you come out at the end...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Jan 4, 2017 | Resilience
It’s weird when something devastating happens in your life. I have wanted to plan my 2017 and yet, after my son being murdered 11 months ago, I’ve been almost afraid to believe my plans can happen. I did most of my year planning late in the year, whereas in 2015 I was...
by Brenda MacIntyre | May 3, 2016 | Resilience
Balance. Does it exist? Is it possible? Or it is balance shmalance? My quick answer is YES and NO. It exists if you can allow for mess and chaos to exist within it. We can’t have perfectly balanced lives with no contrast, but we CAN create a sense of balance within...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Dec 15, 2014 | Resilience
I just wrote about this somewhere – the difference between surviving and thriving. And it keeps coming up in conversation, perhaps because people are really starting to be at an impasse with doing what they don’t love and not giving themselves the gift of doing...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Dec 1, 2014 | Resilience
I know a lot of you are going through a major shift (or more than one!) and just so much transition right now. Some of it feels good, some it sucks and some of it is just plain scary. New things. I like to call it “tripping up the Universe”. And then sometimes… the...
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