by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2021 | Learning, Practice, Purpose, Resilience
COVID, politics, grief, inequities – have ravaged & revealed. They’ve revealed our fault lines, our expectations, our fictions about how the world works, the personal stories we cling to like life rafts, trying to avoid the treacherous, uncertainties...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jan 1, 2021 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Resilience
We crossed the threshold. It really is 2021! “Good riddance, 2020!” “Whew, glad 2020’s behind us.” “That year was a real sh*t show!” You’ve likely made these types of comments, I know I have. But the reality is that the pandemic’s not over and violence...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Dec 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Resilience
Prior to COVID-19 descending last spring, our lives were so oriented around time that we were hard-pressed to leave home without our posse of electronic devices strapped on, tucked in and gripped by our hands. We’d learned to live our lives by the clock, allowing...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Oct 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Purpose
Life is all about choices. As Kenny Rogers famously crooned in his song, The Gambler: “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em Know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away And know when to run” It can be a bit like a giant card game: we’re...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jul 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Practice, Purpose
What’s your score? You know, the number of times ( especially lately ) you’ve hit ‘Send’ on an email or text that was terse and instantly regretted it? Or, how about the number of times when you’re working at home and your spouse or child interrupts to ask what they...
