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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Breah Parker
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As I left the hotel venue after my very first job on a design thinking session,
I asked the facilitator “what happens next?” The participants were so very
excited and had come up with some very insightful and productive tools for the
problem they had gone into the session to solve and the changes they wished to
make. I knew from my own experience that it would be easy to slip right back
into the old groove once back at their desks, back into the plethora of demands
of their job.

“Who is going to support them in following through?” was my next question. The
very seasoned and empathetic facilitator shrugged his shoulders and said he
didn’t really know. The client didn’t have the budget to have follow ups. They
were on their own. 

That first job was a decade ago and the question still burns in my mind. This
time it is related to our year long design shop of learning to live and thrive
in a pandemic. Since the beginning we have been in a rush to get out of it. Our
cultural fast food mentality gave us the expectation that we would soon be “back
to normal”. Over the year, we realized these adjustments we had made to continue
business as close to usual as possible were likely to remain with us for a long
time to come. 

What happens next? 

I received my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine last week and I have been slow
on the uptake of what that means. In December my tenth grandchild was born. The
reality of being able to hold him in my arms soon is dawning. I am about to open
my American Airlines app and book a flight to Philadelphia, something that was
second nature one year ago and now something I have trepidation to do, knowing
that though vaccinated, I still have to be careful for me and for others. 

What have a I learned over this last year that I must do to prepare for stepping
back out into the world?

That is the rising burning question for me and one I ask of you. Though some
disagree, I have believed for a long time that everything happens for a reason.
This gives me the mindset to find the gold buried in the poop emoji. I used to
languish in what that gold might be and this last year has taught me that life
moves like the TGV speeding along at nearly 190 miles per hour through the
French countryside. Right now it feels of utmost importance to find the gold in
what we have learned over this past year that we would like to take with us as
we reenter the world and create a new normal. 

What have you learned to appreciate over this last year that you would like to
take with you as life evolves into a new normal? 

As I pondered the question, sitting in the parking lot of the vet clinic waiting
for my little surprisingly emotionally supportive dog’s appointment, I watched
the person in the car beside me talking with the vet tech. Speaking through
their masked faces, they were looking deeply into each others’ eyes. Daily work
and personal zoom and FaceTime calls requires the same focused attention. My
hope and my intent is that we continue this recognition of each other and we
continue to see each other and look into each others’ eyes to communicate our
feelings. 

Seeing each other.

I asked this same question of my 16 year old grandson. His response was both
surprising and hopeful of what the young people have learned and will carry
forth. 

“A big thing that I’ve noticed is active listening. You have to listen to people
really well now in order to understand and I think that’ll be a big domino
effect for little kids generation.”

Listening to each other.

What have you learned and what will you carry forth? 

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged design shop, emotional support, inspiration,
new normal, recognition, Vaccine, What happens next | Leave a reply


COMMIT TO BEING CURIOUS AND ENGAGED WITH YOUR OWN LIFE…

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Breah Parker
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Comparison is the thief of joy…and the root of “not enough” feelings. As I
recommit to coaching, writing, illustrating, posting Verbal Remedies, and ask
the world (me?) to take me seriously in this work, I find myself comparing. I
was on a call last night with amazing women who are all speaking and offering
their gifts at the same event that I am. I looked at all their faces on the zoom
call and found myself in awe to be in such company. Quiet thoughts of insecurity
passed through my head as I listened to them owning who they are.

I’ve been there before. So many times, only to find out later others were
thinking the same thoughts, comparing themselves to me. I’m willing to bet that
most of us do that. We scope the landscape to see where we might fit. We chip
away at our own hopes and dreams in order to find a comfort zone and be
accepted.

Well STOP THAT MIERDE! Commit to being curious about yourself and what you have
to offer. Commit to being engaged in your one very precious life. Look to your
hopes and dreams and stay on your path, even when it gets bumpy. Especially when
it gets bumpy…you will know it’s your own path…it’s not so well travelled
because it is uniquely your own.

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inspiration, joy, path | Leave a reply


MORE THAN ENOUGH!

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Breah Parker
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WHAT IS YOUR SWORD?

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Breah Parker
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TIME TO BLOSSOM

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Breah Parker
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than
the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anais Nin

I have been drawn to this quote for years but never more than now. It is time
for us to step up and be who we are, blossom, because it is so much more than
enough to make a difference in a world that urgently needs our participation. 

So who are you? What did you come here to learn? What did you come here equipped
to do? What is your role in this upside down world? What are your next steps to
take?

The “What’s Right With Me?” Workshop will help you to answer those questions and
set the foundation for now and the rest of your life.

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…” ~ Hopi Elders (click link for Hopi
Message)

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So many of us have never taken the time to ask ourselves what it means to be who
we are. We have let the demands of our culture direct us into the lives that we
live. We have given over responsibility of what happens to or around us. We ask
“what are they going to do about this…why aren’t they doing something to fix
this?” What this time in our history is showing us is that it is up to each of
us. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for all our lives.

What makes this workshop different, other than the new virtual aspect, is that
we draw out our answers. That’s right. Draw. I will ask you to show up prepared
with markers or crayons and paper. Adding this element engages your whole brain,
making it easier to illuminate and reach into the places that have been pushed
to the dark corners of our souls so we can operate in the world as we are
expected to…conforming to norms that may not necessarily and probably don’t fit
who it is you had envisioned yourself to be at one time. 

I know that this drawing out your answers idea is essential from my experience
as a graphic facilitator in corporate settings. I draw what is being talked
about in meetings…that’s my day job and it changes the dynamics of a meeting. It
facilitates a whole body engagement. People not only listen more but they
understand and retain more of the information being presented. And afterward
there is a picture of what has been talked about.

The “What’s Right With Me?” workshop consists of 13 simple, non-rocket science
questions, asked over a period of 2 hours via the virtual meeting platform Zoom.

• You will remember and learn the truth of who you are during our time together
and you will continue to do so after the workshop. 

• You will remember passions, you will see the beauty of the unique individual
soul that you are. 

• You will find joy in recognizing someone you have known was there but too
afraid to look to see if that was real in case of disappointment. I promise you
that person will emerge and keep emerging with the new awareness that comes out
of this workshop. 

• You will have an actual, as well as proverbial, picture of who you are to
support you in moving forward, taking steps everyday. 

• You will find the love and acceptance and respect for yourself and you will be
well-equipped to find that love and acceptance for others.

Love is a force for change…and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that things
need to change. Can I get an “amen”?

Click this link to sign up to be on the mailing list for the next available
space in a “What’s Right With Me?” Workshop.



Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anais Nin, graphic facilitation, hopi elders,
inspiration, peace and love, self-help, workshop | Leave a reply


WHAT MAKES YOU VULNERABLE MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Breah Parker
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Several years ago in my “What’s Right With Me?” workshop I was offering to a
leadership team, a seemingly very strong and powerful woman on the team stood up
and gruffly announced “I’m too sensitive!” We had a delicious conversation
around her proclamation, ending with a man on the team stating that everyone
knew she was sensitive and they all needed her to be sensitive because they
weren’t. With that, she sat down and there was a collective sigh of relief as
everyone began to realize that one thing they had been hiding about themself
must be ok too. One person’s vulnerability inspired a roomful of vulnerability.
A beautiful moment courtesy of a beautifully courageous woman.

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FILL YOUR HEART WITH PEACE AND LOVE AND…

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Breah Parker
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NO MORE EXCUSES

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Breah Parker
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We
are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack
Obama

 

 

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RISK TO BLOSSOM

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Breah Parker
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This morning I read that Jimmy Carter has stage IV melanoma. Not a good
prognosis. My father died at 57 from melanoma. Last fall I was given a diagnosis
of stage 0, non-invasive, insitu melanoma. Sounds like the best you can get if
you’re gonna get it…to me. So much so that I couldn’t bring myself to say that I
had a cancer. That word is so very difficult to ascribe to self. Meanwhile, my
very dear and close friend was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. Another
very dear and close friend died suddenly. All within the month of August and
early September. The fall began as a time of grief and acceptance. The winter
thru now has been a journey of healing.

As I feel the upcoming fall season, and reflect on where things are, I feel the
urgency of life and getting the most out of it on a day to day basis. This
summer I had knee surgery to clean out damage done over years and specifically
in a fall while on a hike 2 years ago. So, rather than the summer I keep
dreaming of and felt ready for doing on my own, being on the water, riding my
bike, hiking, I was resting and recovering.

Now the summer is coming to a close. The children are back in school. Nights are
a little cooler, a little crispy. I love this time of year. And it also brings
up the sadness of a summer gone by once again unfulfilled. Or is it?
Unfulfilled. I can’t quite feel that, though it is there and I am choosing not
to go down that lane.

What does this summer and past year have to show me? Is this another level of
healing a sad soul? I have harbored a secret (and not so secret at times)
sadness throughout my entire life. It is a sadness born of feeling very much
adrift from humanity, a separation of sorts between me and another human
singular human being. My mother was not the mothering kind. She didn’t like any
of the mess that comes with a child. She didn’t hug, didn’t kiss, except quick
and perfunctory. She yelled. She told us all in various ways we were a pain and
a burden to her. Though I know my sister has voiced the same, I felt alone in
feeling unloved. Things and people change and now, at 86, Mom is learning it’s
ok to be vulnerable and love openly. In doing so, she is showing us the person
we always wished for is in there and a real possibility. She is allowing us the
safety of loving her.

Coming into this past spring, my ex-husband entered the scene once again. He is
an addict who lives for the appropriate moments he is able to drink and smoke. I
lived for the “in between” of those moments and they became fewer and fewer
until they didn’t exist much at all. After the divorce, my children began to
bear the burden of his alcoholism. My son took him to rehab nearly a decade ago
and gave him a home for the first 5 months following, which coincided with the
first 5 months of the oldest daughter’s life. This past spring, my ex was given
an over-the-top fresh start when an ultra-sound tech searching for reasons his
heart was acting up made an intuitive detour and found a leaking aortic aneurism
and saved his life. He went through alcohol and nicotine withdrawal in the ICU
for 10 days. My son and oldest daughter saw him through it.

Our hope was that he would take this opportunity to find life again but he
didn’t. He lived with my daughter and her family for 4 months, sneaking off to
drink a six pack or so at the lake. I took on the task of telling him it was
time to leave. And he did, leaving in his wake the sadness that has pervaded his
life. Nothing is normal anymore. My children are finding their way around the
emotions that accompany the knowing that your dad is not coming back, and that
he has chosen it. How do you reconcile that? My new role is to be both parents
to my children and I am learning how to do that.

A few years ago, I was told by an intuitive that my ex-husband was corded into
my soul through my knee. I tossed that over my shoulder as probably just a lot
of ooga-booga and hopeful thinking that there is something more magical than
meets the eye going on here. I am thinking and feeling differently now. I am
feeling pretty certain that it’s more real than not. Or is it a coincidence
that, as I have a clear and final break with my ex, I have a clean out knee
surgery? Maybe. Maybe not.

What is apparent to me is that life goes quickly and all of us do die in the
end. My hope is that I live a very long and healthy life and my fear is that I
won’t get to experience all that I long to experience. I have been holding on to
the hope that I would meet the man of my dreams and we would do these things
together. I have been waiting to live my life until it looks like I think it
should look. Slowly as I gather more confidence and love for myself, I am moving
into doing things on my own, like buying a house and taking care of my health,
both physically, spiritually and emotionally. Next up is my trip to France.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than
the risk to blossom.” – Anais Nin

A really quick coloring page … Risk Butterfly_bw

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AWARENESS…AGENT FOR CHANGE

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Breah Parker
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Everyday I open CNN.com and read of something awful happening. I can’t seem to
stop myself from seeing and reading. I wonder if it’s smart to have these things
in my awareness and then I found this quote by Eckhart Tolle. I think he’s
right.

Here’s the image downloadable as a coloring page...Awareness

 

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