What are you hiding about yourself? What are you afraid to share? What do you lie about? Do you worry about being ‘found out’? (Post your answers in the comment section.)
Quite often, it’s the very things that we want to hide that draw people to us. (I go into more detail in my fancy video below. And my fancy I mean simple, poorly lit and using yoga blocks as a tripod. I mean, who need all the bells and whistles, right?)
Don’t hide your shit.
Or your magnificence.
I won’t either, k? Love you guys. Sans bells and whistles, Jen
“Here’s the thing about Jen Pastiloff, folks. Here’s the revolutionary thing.
She listens.
She listens with an intent focus, a focus that follows your words inside you. Because she has hearing problems, she watches your lips as you speak, and she plucks the ash of your words from the air and takes it inside herself and lays it beside her heart, where before too long your words start beating as if they were strong, capable, living mammals. And then she gives them back to you.
Boiled down, this is the secret to Jen’s popularity. She can call what she does Beauty Hunting–she is for sure out there helping people find beauty. She can start a campaign called “Don’t be an asshole” and remind us all to stop a second and please, please, please be our better selves. She can use words like attention, space, time, connection, intimacy. She can ask participants to answer questions like What gets in your way? What stories are you carrying around in your body? What makes you come alive? Who would you be if nobody told you who you were? All of that is what it is. But why it works is because of her kind of listening.
And what her kind of listening does is simple:
It saves lives.” ~ Jane Eaton Hamilton.
Featured image by Joe Longo.
I have so much to share, and I’m waiting for readiness. Thank you for reminding of that path.
So Perfect.
Jen… You. Are. Magnificent.
I’ve been hiding what I really want in case ‘people’ think I’m stupid or an imposter or something.
I want to write. I want to be a companion-teacher to those embarking on a similar road to the one I’m on. I want to share, to help, to make a difference.
Thank you for the impetus to say that out loud, at least here to start.