SERIES: The Gifts of Imperfection

Cultivating Meaningful Work- Letting Go of Self Doubt

March 29, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

Cultivating Calm/Letting Go of Anxiety

March 22, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

“Fear and Panic or Faith and Practice?”

March 15, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

Cultivating Intuition & Trusting Faith

March 1, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

READINGS: “Intuition is the whisper of the soul.” Krishnamurti “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martine Luther King, Jr. “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” Voltaire “Intuition is not a single way of knowing—it’s our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to test the many ways we’ve developed knowledge and insight, including instinct, experience, faith and reason.” Brene Brown “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs “Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.” Michael Bierut “Your intuitive thoughts are love notes from your soul. Listen to them.” Unknown

Cultivating Creativity/Letting Go of Comparison

March 8, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

Readings: Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is know which ones to keep.” Scott Adams What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. Deepak Chopra To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Steven Furtick Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle. Jon Acuff Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

Cultivating Gratitude/ Letting Go of Scarcity & Fear

February 23, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

READINGS “It is not joy that make us grateful; it is gratitude that make us joyful.” David Steindl-Rast “Joy is a spiritual way of engaging with the world that’s connected to practicing gratitude.” Brene Brown “Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.” Berthold Auerbach “Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” Amy Collette “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” Maya Angelou “Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.” Unknown

Letting Go of Being Cool and Always in Control

April 5, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

Cultivating a Resilient Spirit

February 17, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

READINGS: "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” Maya Angelou “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." Dr. Steve Maraboli “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” Kahlil Gibran “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” Eleanor Roosevelt “You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process, you will figure out who you really are and you just might become the very best version of yourself.” Sheryl Sandberg “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” Mizuta Mashahide (17th century Japanese poet and samurai)

Letting Go of What People Think

February 2, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell

READINGS: The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. Carl Jung To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting. EE Cummings I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier. Oprah Winfrey Be brave with your life so others can be brave with theirs. Katherine Center Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. Coco Chanel No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. Nathaniel Hawthorne Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it. Williams James The authentic self is soul made visible. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Letting Go of Perfectionism

February 9, 2020 • Wendy Craig-Purcell