
Discovering, and Diving In Deeper – counterintuitively, stepping back in order to move forward …
Last weekend I had the fabulous experience of participating in my friend and colleague Cara Brown's first ever online offering of one of her signature programs Get Intimate with Color workshop. I love pioneering, so I was excited to be part of Cara's first online...
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How Struggling for “Respect” Can Give Us Anything But That – and the powerful vulnerability in laying it all on the table
If you've been following my Musings at all, you've probably noticed that 'Respect', and 'Honouring Our Humanity' are like bookends in the notion of realizing RICH relationships - whether that's relationships with ourselves, with others, or for that matter with...
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Being With the Uncertainty of Election Outcomes – an invitation to ‘be’ At Home together …
Yes, this is a special "outside of my usual routine" Maralyn's Musing - and in a way this time we are living in feels "outside of our usual routine" too. Over the last week I've been in conversation with people on both 'sides' of the political spectrum who are feeling...
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Being Kind to Ourselves and Others – honouring, not dominating, our humanity …
[A month (and two Musings) ago, I first explored Honouring Our Humanity. My intention was to write next about Honouring the Humanity of Others. But as life unfolded I realized, through my own experiences, the importance of shoring up our foundations of honouring...
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Gratefulness and Delight – Critical elements fueling us in being who we came here to be …
[If you've been following this series of Musings that started with "Please Stop", and its follow up ... It's More Than Just the Words, as well as Exploring Safety, and Honouring Our Humanity, you may well be as ready for this Musing as I am!] As the series of Musings...
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Honouring our humanity – exploring the ‘H’ in RICH Relationships
[You may have been following the series of Musings that started with the one called "Please Stop", and its follow up ... It's More Than Just the Words. Last Musing I was Exploring Safety .....This is another in that series.] One of the things I've realized as I've...
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Exploring Safety … What does it mean to you? What happens when it’s absent?
[This is another Musing in a series born out of my experience earlier this summer. If you've not seen my original "Please Stop" Musing, you might want to check it out, it'll give you the background and origin of the phrase. And a second Musing subtitled - dancing (and...
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“Please Stop” … It’s More Than Just The Words
- dancing (and sometimes stepping on toes) towards an ecology of shared power [If you've not seen my original "Please Stop" Musing, you might want to check it out, it'll give you the background and origin of the phrase. There I said I'd be exploring various nuances...
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“Please Stop” … a full circle journey in co-creating more respectful connnection
If you've been around kids for any length of time, you know that particularly when there are 4 of them together, the scene's not always as peaceful and co-operative as this photo, taken almost 30 years ago of my 3 kids and their 'pseudo-sister' (my friend's daughter),...
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An Experience of Practical Presence – standing in the fire without getting burned …
After sharing my last Musing About Practical Presence, I had someone ask "So what does Practical Presence look like in the real world?" In thanking her for asking, I told her I was pretty sure she wasn't the only one with that question! So I figured in this Musing I'd...
read moreRespectful Relationships in which we honour ourselves and each other with a deep reverence for the unique gifts we each bring to life.

Intimate Being open and undefended in our living and loving—to the degree that’s appropriate for the context of the relationship.

Courageous A required element for living respectfully and intimately, this courage is anchored in a fierce commitment to being in integrity with ourselves, celebrating whatever is here now, AND being curious – hmmm, I wonder what else is possible?!

Human With all the idealism and possibility embedded in this vision, an honouring of our humanity is crucial—which of course brings us back to the beginning, being respectful.
