
Musing About Practical Presence – What is it? What does it give us? What does it ask of us? …
Since naming it in my last Maralyn's Musing, I've been reflecting more about the notion of Practical Presence. I've long known 'presence' was a really important part of my work in the world - though perhaps not presence in the way that many think of it. Though...
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When ‘Good’ People ‘Forget’ Kindness
... and 3 places to check-in when we notice that happening in ourselves. Maybe it's the sheer number of situations that are crying out for our attention, inviting us to create different ways of being with ourselves, and each other. When we look at how we be together...
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Nurturing Connections of Many Kinds – reflections on a week spent in Canada …
The wise part of me knows we're all connected no matter what, and for the human part of me there's nothing like in person connection! Though we get back to Toronto several times a year, it's often just for a few days associated with family gatherings at holiday times,...
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Inhabiting Our Deep Desires Take 2 – when we can’t manifest our desires as quickly as we’d like …
Since publishing my last Musing Inhabiting My Deep Desires, the implications have been percolating in me. As a little girl, one Christmas my friend Sally and I both asked Santa for stuffed animals, Sally got a BIG dog, I got a little lamb. In response to my...
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Inhabiting My Deep Desires – means my risking desiring the big dog
"It's ok for you to desire the big dog, Maralyn!" I heard these unlikely words in an Open Coaching session with Dave Buck this week. In the final section of the inaugural Coachville Simply Brilliant program, we were exploring our relationship with Visibility. I know...
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When Life Unfolds in Unanticipated Ways …
This was NOT how I anticipated spending my week, but as the saying goes, life is what happens when you're busy making other plans! I had a full week planned, including (as part of a program I've been engaging with Coachville's Dave Buck) recording a client success...
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Acceptance of another doesn’t require agreement with …
Acceptance of another doesn't require agreement with ... and difference between us doesn't mean we need to be against each other. These are principles I've shared, taught, and attempted to live by for years. And it continues to be a journey. My commitment to this way...
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Moving from a State of No Agency and Helplessness to Powerful Advocacy and Sovereignty …
I've been on vacation visiting friends in New York City this week, and yesterday I saw and felt for the first time the 9/11 Memorial. As I imagine many of you do, I vividly remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of that first building collapsing. And I...
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A ‘Panda Moment’ …
So I have this magnet on the front of my filing cabinet - a panda lying flat on it's back in a bed of ferns, and the caption reads: Sometimes I think I understand everything ... then I regain consciousness It's an experience I've had a number of times, and it happened...
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Expanding Presence, and Co-creating a Different Future – one grounded in compassion and justice …
I'm really excited to share with you some new resources I've discovered in the last couple weeks! If you've been reading my musings, you'll know that recently, I've been expressing my calling as an invitation to Find Your SEA Legs. I've been inviting all of us into...
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.
