This past winter and early spring, I was struggling. I felt as though I was being pulled in a thousand directions. Though I wanted to show up for everything and everyone, I found myself fully present for nothing and no one.
My not-fully-present manifested as exhaustion. Not like a “I really need to sleep” kind of exhaustion, more of a “my soul needs a lie-down” kind of exhaustion.
Read MoreA few weeks into 2022, April and Tracie share with us what they’ve learned about how to set intentions and their best practices for succeeding. Referencing the conversation they had in Episode 70, they chat about achieving goals versus implementing systems. They unpack some of the patterns around setting intentions and assumptions of our own enoughness. Tracie shares her personal 10 commandments for the upcoming year.
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Read MoreHave you ever seen or heard the advice, “be the person you needed as a child”? That’s kind of what the Ko’ach Fellowship is for me. When I was a Vice President at the URJ, I deeply needed a mentor who was Jewish leader of color who had walked that “senior executive at a large establishment institution” path before. That person just didn’t exist.
Read More“I think that there are ways in my life where I bring immense effort, where there's a way to achieve arguably more than I'm achieving right now if I can physically and spiritually embody more trust and still show up to work. But it's, like, am I looking for rocks to lift? Or am I am I noticing that there is actually keys in the ignition of a lift next to me, and if I just paused enough to notice, there's resource right there, that rather than me trying to lift boulders, by engaging what already is and slowing down enough.” - April N. Baskin
Read MoreI felt so peaceful and grounded afterward, and the effects of those 5 minutes lasted a week.
I remember 4 days later, another student ran into me in the quad and just kept on walking. BOOM! I remember him plowing into me, and as my body was pushed backward from the impact, it was an unexpected surreal experience for me. It was like the moment was happening in. slow. motion. in. my. mind. I remember thinking, "This is when I would normally feel very angry…but I'm not…. more accurately, I feel like I have a choice about whether or not I will choose to feel angry or not… ?!?!?! ...Whoa... This is amazing!”
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