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Choices That Can Change Your Life

emily-cunningham May 13, 2020
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Carolyn Myss

This TED talk by American writer Carolyn Myss presents 5 profound methods for shifting your perspectives and operating from a place of deep integrity and alignment.

Myss, an innovator in the intersecting fields of spirituality and healing, is a consummate storyteller. In this talk, she brings rich insights and practical strategies from her decades of work in diverse healing modalities. 

She presents a challenge of sorts, regarding the specific words we can "wear out" in a way, as we reinforce and retell our own stories. (This discussion begins around 19:10 in the video) Embracing this challenge can be an absolute game-changer, especially as it relates to the stories we tell ourselves and others about our Loved Ones and their use… but also as it relates the stories we tell about ourselves.
 

This awareness and committment to examine our own words ties in beautifully with Laurie MacDougall's crucial new piece on the power of our collective vocabularies for talking about Substance Use. There is tremendous potential for personal and cultural transformation here.  

If you enjoy this talk by Carolyn Myss, check out her blog, in which she offers troves of wisdom in her quintessential, no-nonsense style. 

 

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Emily Cunningham serves as editor, occasional contributor, and co-curator of our Sanctuary posts. She merges her studies in mind-body medicine with a lifelong passion for language, writing and editing to serve the Allies in Recovery community. She is honored to be a part of this global family, bringing compassionate, open-hearted communication to our members. Emily and her family live in New Mexico where she enjoys the steady sunshine, vast landscapes and regional delights. Passionate about natural medicine and healing, she also works as a massage therapist and teaches Anatomy & Physiology at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM.

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