Posts by Deborah Drake
Let Me Tell You a Story: Tales along the road to happiness ~Dr. Jorge Bucay, PhD
“Later in time, I came to learn that Tubs liked fables, parables, stories, aphorisms and well-wrought metaphors. According to him, the only way to truly understand something you haven’t directly experienced is to have a clear, symbolic picture of it, from the inside. A fable, anecdote or story,” Jorge claimed, “will be remembered a hundred…
Read MoreThought of the Day: Linda Zeppa on Expectations
Expectations no more! For reasons beyond my control, I have stopped having expectations. No, I haven’t given up all hope. I have been forced to look at things and allow things in a whole different way. Universe has a strange way of setting out what needs to happen and what we need to experience.
Read MoreThought of the Day: Jim Morrison and Defying Gravity
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on…
Read MoreDear Cory Monteith: So what was really going on for you?
It is always a shock to hear about death that initially has no easy explanation. I saw on the stream of a friend on Facebook that a much loved celebrity was found dead and the cause is as of this writing “undetermined.” My daughter and I have been watching “Glee” for years and I loved the…
Read More“I am a work in progress.”
It’s nearly 6pm and in 25 minutes the Essential Bakery (apropos name!) will close for the day. For the time being I am safe to capture the experience I just had with one named “Anna” who commented on the Azure blue scarf I was wearing as most becoming on me. She was alone with her…
Read MoreAnnouncing: The Pilot Online Course has begun!
Who Wants a Good Night Sleep No Matter What? After several wonderful months of collaborating with the HySoS team, the pilot course of the Online Course: Do you have what it takes to be yourself? has launched! Note: We’re not currently accepting new pilot participants but registered students can access the course here. As of…
Read MoreThought of the Day: May 14, 2013
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection…
Read MoreIn Search of “Feel Good Island”
Feeling good about yourself is not always a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with experiencing a sense of satisfaction after a job well done, a test passed successfully, help provided to a friend or any other type of activity. In fact it seems to be the very thing that many people strive for,…
Read MoreWhy do we do what we do? Whose life is it anyway?
Want to take part (for free) in our pilot online program? “Do You Have What It Takes to BE YOURSELF?” We are launching a 3-week pilot of a self-study course on the Sense of Self Method. This pilot is a complimentary opportunity for a dozen “curious friends of Sense of Self” to experience the material and give…
Read MoreWhy Are Children So ALIVE?
I’m staring out the window of the HySoS office into the courtyard and atrium where I spend a good amount of time each week. It is Earth Day and the weather in the Greater Seattle area is cooperating. It is a GLORIOUS day. Blue skies. White clouds. Perfect breeze. A clear view of the Olympics…
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