What is The Aware Ego?
Here's what the Aware Ego is in a nutshell plus an exercise to kick-start your Aware Ego Process. The Aware Ego is the ability to stand between opposite selves, experiencing and understanding both sides, yet not identifying with either. It's a place from where you feel the tension between opposites. From an ...
What is Awareness?
Here's a brief explanation of what awareness is, and of the difference between awareness and consciousness, and between awareness and the observing mind. Awareness is a state of consciousness where you can 'see' or witness yourself, as if you were looking at yourself from outside yourself. It's a state you can access with ...
Coming Soon…
More Fast Facts Coming Soon! Topics include: What is Energy? Personal and Impersonal Energy What is a Primary Self? What is a Disowned Self? Spiritual energy versus spiritual rules There's also a whole new section starting soon called Energy Tips & Tricks. And the next selves to be interviewed for ...
How to be a Good Parent When You Believe You’re Being a Bad Parent
Feeling sick? Tired? Irritable? Know you're going to be a bad parent today? Here's how to be a good parent even when you believe you're being a bad parent. Iwoke up yesterday morning with the head cold my kids had been passing to each other over the last few weeks, a massive headache and ...
Paid Parental Leave And Child Care – What About Stay At Home Parents?
Paid parental leave and child care - are these a women's issue or a family issue or a broader societal issue? How do we make the system fair for everyone, including single income families and single parents? While watching the Australian current affairs show Q&A where the audience asks panel members questions, a viewer's tweet appeared on screen ...
The Way of Voice Dialogue
Voice Dialogue is the method for exploring selves, with the intent of supporting the emergence of the Aware Ego, while the Psychology of Selves and of the Aware Ego Process is the theoretical framework underpinning it. But for many the term 'Voice Dialogue' has come to refer to the totality of this work, and as an ...
Responding to Your Child Crying When They’re Upset
When you see your child is upset and is crying, your natural response is probably to make them feel better, and this usually translates into stopping them crying. There is another approach, which involves supporting your child to cry it all out. This honours their feelings and enables your child to process them fully. ...
How to Handle Picky Eaters More Easily
One of the biggest challenges with raising children is getting them to eat the foods you want them to eat. A powerful tool you can use to make mealtimes less frustrating and more enjoyable is to pay attention to who in you is invested in the particular meal and in your ...
Does Climate Change Really Matter?
In the year 2005 I wrote an article on climate change for my newsletter, and 10 years later, I shortened it and posted it here. And now, in 2020, it reads as if I wrote it today. The gist of my argument is that whether or not you believe in climate change, ...
The Heroine’s Journey of Childbirth
Oprah once interviewed the legendary Jean Houston on her show Super Soul Sunday, where they discussed the Hero's Journey, and how each one of us is called in our lives to undertake such a journey in order to become more of who we really are. It reminded me how the Hero's ...
