“Not This” — Pay Attention to Difficult Emotions

(first posted Feb 2021)

“Not this” is a very important stage.

– Glennon Doyle, “Untamed”

If life is a classroom for personal and spiritual growth…

Then for me, January was some sort of accelerated learning curve in the curriculum of lessons.

And I’m not entirely sure I passed any of the tests

Three separate incidents occurred…but they all come back to the phrase: “Not this.”

If you haven’t read Glennon Doyle’s new book, “Untamed,” I highly recommend it.

“Not this,” writes Doyle, “is a very important stage. But knowing what we do not want is not the same as knowing what we do want. So how can we get from Not this to This instead? How can we move from feeling discontent to creating new lives and new worlds?”

Well, you’ll just have to read the book and find out

In the meantime, this blog is about the “Not this” stage.

Because being able to recognize what is not (or no longer) working for us is an integral step in discovering what will work.

What we are after is clarity.

“Clarity comes from engagement.”