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Picking Up Sticks.

You see a need and you're already reaching for it, before anyone has asked. It feels like kindness, and sometimes it is. But some of what you're carrying belongs to someone else, and it gets heavier every mile. This one starts on a backpacking trail in the Sierras and looks at the thought behind the yes, and how to tell what's yours to carry from what isn't.

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The Hard Part Is Knowing What to Do With What You Know

She said something in our session that stopped me.

"I don't even know what the next step is."

She wasn't lost. She had already made the decision. She knew something had to change. She just didn't know where to start.

That's the hardest part. Not the knowing. What to do with what you know.

In this post I share two practical tools for questioning the thought that's been running your relationships — and what to do with your answer.

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