My client Felicia is in her car. Her kids are driving her mad fighting in the back seat. It’s after school. She’s at her wit’s end, compounded by other stresses – a bungled work email, an IRS tax bill she forgot to pay, her husband’s complaint about something earlier that morning. She fears the soccer coach taking it out on […]
Join Stuart for a reading (he’s a powerful speaker – see for yourself) and signing of his recently published book “Fixing You Is Killing Me” on Sun, Sept 23 at 2pm in Denver at The Tattered Cover Bookstore at 2526 East W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO. “Fixing You Is Killing Me: A Conscious Roadmap to Knowing When to Save & When […]
“…the dry throat that came from a love you remembered but had never fully wanted for yourself, until finally, after years making the long trek to get here it was as if your whole achievement had become nothing but thirst itself.” – David Whyte, “The Well” I sit for my daily morning practice; often it’s a form of meditation. Thoughts […]
Last week I wrote about the claustrophobic mindset that does not trust that everything will be okay. Trust that I’ll be ok. Trust that I’ll make my mortgage. Trust that I’ll succeed at work or in my marriage. In distrust, a rabbit hole emerges and anything to get out of it is in vain until something else happens. Something to […]
I wake up in the middle of the night. It just happens. Often. I’m forty-nine. Seems to be part of my life at this point. My thoughts get churning. Sometimes it’s first thing in the morning. How will I keep a roof over my head over these next few years? Will I ever see her again? Will my business be […]
I lost my way. Yes, and that’s a good thing. I was on a contrived Super Stu Coach path. An image of me more than what I really wanted. It took breaking an artery in my leg, 30 nights of waking up with “knife in the leg” pain, and five weeks of being “on my back” – to get the […]
Pink Floyd once sang, The lunatic is in my head. For me lately, it’s been The Creep is on my back. Say what? Yes, the creep is on my back. But rewind first… Dude breaks artery in his leg, spends five weeks on his back on a couch, and then BAM! one day gets so angry, nearly violent, he channels all […]
So I had an injury… a major injury… near death experience… near amputation experience… I broke an artery in my leg in a freak accident. Recovery has been brutal. 35 days now and barely walking on crutches. Days and days on end of sitting on my couch. Weeks of barely having enough energy to even answer an email. Sure, I’ve […]
Truth: Only with our partner do our shadows appear most ferociously and triggers fly off the handle, often like a tornado that blindsides us. She said this… I said that and… hmmm… I don’t know what happened after that. Instead of checking out – a habit that descends over time into one day your partner being less interesting than your […]
Check out Stuart’s interview about his book “Fixing You Is Killing Me” KGNU worldwide radio. Skip to 14:26 to to the interview. This interview was conducted by Sam Fuqua of KGNU. Key themes include: – Self betrayal in relationship – The myth of The One who will complete me – How we are taught both at a young age – […]
