BLOG: Monday Musings by Teresa McBean

Brene Brown writes the most amazing books. In her book Rising Strong, she provides the guiding principles that she has in her own organization. I’ll get to those in a second but here’s the main point for us to consider today: she and her organization are operating by guiding principles. This is uncommon but necessary for belonging. There is this tendency to get sentimental about belonging. … [Read more...] about Belonging is so very hard to do

“I knew there was something about you that I liked.” This sentence saved Sister Molly Monahan from an overwhelming shame attack early in her recovery from alcohol addiction. Sister Monahan, fresh out of rehab, was serving as a consultant and visiting a college campus in Virginia. One evening she slipped away from her duties to attend an AA meeting and discovered to her utter dismay that a law … [Read more...] about Spiritual Dis-ease