by Cory | Nov 5, 2017 | Coffee With Cory
You’re not lost. Have you had the experiencing of feeling lost? You’re not sure of your next step or where your life is headed? Everything seems to be happening around you but you don’t know where you fit into it all? It’s uncomfortable. But perhaps you’re not as lost...
by Cory | Nov 4, 2017 | Coffee With Cory
Has nothing good happened yet? Maybe you’re just growing like bamboo. My jiu jitsu teacher, Milton Regis, used to liken our martial development to how bamboo grows. He told us that in the first 5 years after planting bamboo seeds, you don’t see anything. Nothing...
by Cory | Nov 3, 2017 | Coffee With Cory
Sometimes Plan A is not an option. Chris Feudtner is a pediatrician who focuses on improving the lives of children with complex chronic conditions and their families. He often has to have conversations with parents that he describes as the most difficult of their...
by Cory | Nov 2, 2017 | Coffee With Cory
If you need to tell people that you’re meditating for them to know you’re meditating, keep meditating. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, says that for the first years of meditating, don’t tell anyone you’re meditating. Every time you...
by Cory | Nov 1, 2017 | Coffee With Cory
One of the most painful things for me to hear about is how brutally people beat themselves up with their own minds. And it’s so common. Abrasive thoughts can have tremendous power over us if we have not trained ourselves to experience them differently. Next time you...
by Cory | Oct 31, 2017 | Coffee With Cory
“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character and will.”  –William James William James, widely considered by many to be the first American psychologist, said this back in the 1800s. And...
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