Posts by Catherine Collautt, Ph.D.
Interview With Marie Forleo: On Overcoming Failure and Regaining Confidence
Marie Forleo Interview: 4 Steps to Overcome A Devastating Setback Or Failure Had the pleasure recently, of being back on Marie Forleo’s MarieTV. This time we talked about overcoming failure and regaining confidence. In this Q&A, Marie and I discuss the non-negotiable nature of learning to deal with setbacks and failures, and the kinds of conclusions that are appropriate…
Read MoreWounds.
“What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.” ~ Hafiz ‘It is to stop being so religious like…
Read MoreSelfishness: Self-centered V. Ego-centered
“A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.” ~ Oscar Wilde Selfishness, the way we are taught it, seems pretty straightforward: it is about acting or doing out…
Read MoreLet’s Hear It For The Boy.
“Within the masculine psyche, there is a creature, an unwounded man, who believes in the good, who has no doubts about life, who is not only wise but who also is not afraid to die.” Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, Women Who Run With The Wolves Ahhh Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakas’ character in The Hangover, above) … Just kidding. Or…
Read MoreTime. Check it.
“For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.” ~ Albert Einstein Now I can’t tell you exactly what that means. (Something, deep down the rabbit hole, in the way of: you have equal access to past, present and future – time is…
Read MoreBeing Normal: Overrated and Arguably Impossible.
“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” ~ Thomas Moore Disengage from the dominant tendency. Just disengage. We could say, ‘there is no normal’; and for sure that is to a large extent true, and the great majority of what I want to say here. On the other hand, abstractions…
Read MoreForgiving and Forgetting: Part Two
“Find exemplary examples.” ~ Catherine Collautt, Ph.D. My last post, Forgiving and Forgetting: Part One, you may have found to be, ‘a hard one’ – simply by virtue of the fact that it was on forgiveness. Forgiveness is hard because of the level it asks us to engage with life on; one we often spend…
Read MoreForgiving and Forgetting: Part One
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” ~ Thomas Szasz There is definitely something important and insightful in Szasz’s statement, but I want to amend it to say: The stupid neither forgive nor forget;the naïve forgive and forget;the wise forgive and – learn.…
Read MoreDo We Really Need Do-Overs Or What?
“We were built to negotiate and champion life by evolving, re-crafting, and transforming – not, by hitting the reset button.” ~ Catherine Collautt, Ph.D., On Having One Life. Or What’s True About Reincarnation. So often I have found that as we change – which we inevitably do in the course of this thing called Life…
Read MoreA Case, And Some Space, For Introversion
“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.” ~ Criss Jami Ah the guilt, and sometimes shame, we feel as introverts … Why? Because we get replenished by being in our own space and our own energy instead of that of the group (as extroverts do)? Why does…
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