Dear community,   I would like to report miracles that are happening.   Last week’s newsletter was all about the “why”. Why do I even bother. Why do I take one day a week and who knows how many hours of rumination to publish a newsletter that not so many people read?   My answer to that question is (and has been for a while now): community. I am actively searching and listening deeply to cues from the field as to how to either find a community where I can be fully myself or create a community...

With love, (a tiny sprinkle of) rage, and reverence, Your disorganized, recovering people-pleaser and community-dreamer, Corina

Dear community.   I have been having this nagging feeling that there are certain relationships in my life where I don’t show up as my most authentic self all the time. Specifically, the relationships that are the closest to me and even more specifically, the pattern shows up when I am tired.  The best way I can describe this non-authentic self is “people pleasing”.   People pleasing is a particular kind of prison  that looks virtuous from the outside: I am defined as  the kind one, the...