Author Archives: Diane

About Diane

Ciao! My name is Diane. Welcome to this most precious place, where I offer myself a safe place to be vulnerable and bravely grow throughout the life journey.

back on the horse

back on the horse

have you ever been horseback riding?  I went once as a kid.  At a horse ranch.  I think it took 2 people to hoist me up there on top of that H.U.G,E beast.  In truth…it was probably a tired old horse, overeating itself on apples at the farm.  But I might have been 13 or 14 years old….so I felt like I was mounted 2 miles off the earth up on the back of that big stallion.  If…I…fell… off…of…that…thing……….would I have the courage to get back on?

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discipline

discipline

samurai

It’s funny.  When I googled the definition of discipline – the most prevalent definitions that popped up involved some form of training  “through the use of punishment or forced obedience“.   Why does the concept of being disciplined or having discipline — infer that it was achieved through punishment??  Is that how becoming disciplined happens? Read the rest of this entry