May focus: Help An introduction to this month’s theme
On Timeliness Pealing back a layer of anxiety from giving and receiving help by exploring the concept of timeliness, and the fact that we can’t ever know when tipping points will happen.
Ripples of Kindness There are many forms that help takes, and it’s impossible to quantify their relative worth.
Everything Belongs Exploring the radical possibility that everything – every last thing – belongs to a story that’s good.
Life beyond fear lizard brain Considering the ways that help can be engaged less by our “lizard brains” and more by the rest of our higher functioning.
What’s your Big Lesson right now? A twist on the natural dichotomy between giving and receiving help, this post explores the dichotomy between receiving and rejecting aid, and the value that each of these can hold for us, depending on our circumstances.
What change-makers and the rest of us sometimes need to hear Reflections on heaving our Big Lessons onto other people thoughtlessly and the trust we can grow by realizing the pitfalls of this.
Staying with the discomfort of your power Sometimes we feel like our weaknesses and vulnerabilities get us off the hook or bar us from giving in any way. This post explores the possibility that power exists alongside our weakness, and “staying” with our power can free us in ways that hiding out never can.
The magic of compassion This is a guest post by Christine LaRocque of coffeesandcommutes.com, and explores the magic that can happen when we reach out for help.
When the breakdown is the breakthrough This is a guest post by Lindsey Mead (adesignsovast.com) about how asking for help taught her how to live her life.

A ritual for receiving This is a ritual designed to help us get conscious of where we are on the “able to ask for and accept help” spectrum and move us in the direction of “able” on that spectrum.

Butt Kicking Four change-makers weight in on the value and limitations of this popular method of getting things done.

What’s your Big Lesson right now? Two songs accompany this twist on the natural dichotomy between giving and receiving help: Fred Johnson and Steve D’Annunzio’s Step Into Your Power illustrates the value of rejecting help, and a clip from the 1989 movie, Lean On Me, illustrates the value of accepting it.