Wednesday Wisdom

Our founder, Tracy Fink, shares inspirational and compassionate thoughts in her wekly YouTube series.

Today’s Wednesday Wisdom explores the concept of energy as a conduit to how we are all connected. We talk about power of connection from the philosophy of Albert Einstein and the Avis shuttle bus driver.
We Are All Connected
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Today’s (super mellow) Wednesday Wisdom explores the notion of sharing gratitude, as a gift for someone. You will benefit as well. We round the year out with a poem about going home called “wild geese” by Mary Oliver.
2021 Year End Reflection
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For today’s Wednesday Wisdom listen to a poem called “my brain and heart divorced” by John Roedel. It is about how we can find refuge when the head and the heart are at war over who is to blame for our human messiness.
A Poem
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Today’s Wednesday Wisdom revisits the topic of self care as a movement to avoid burnout rather than as a response to it. Authentic self-care is the practice of taking an active role in protecting our well-being and pursuing happiness. It’s about having the ability, and the resources, to respond periods of stress so that they don’t lead to a health crisis. The research reminds us that our self-care impacts everyone around us. When we are willing to adopt and model good practices of self-care, we create healthier homes, workplaces and communities. And a healthier world!
Authentic Self-Care: It’s How “Me” impacts “We”
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Today’s Wednesday Wisdom looks at trust as a practice. Trust means relying on someone or something to do the right thing. We have to practice seeing that positive action and knowing that it is meant for us and can provide a sense of safety. Trust is confidence in ourselves and others, here and otherworldly.
Practicing Trust
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Today’s Wednesday wisdom explores the concept of mental fitness from a Positive Intelligence standpoint. We all have judges and saboteurs that live inside us but we also have wise sage beings that live within us as well. When we pay attention to the sage voices of wisdom and clarity, we return to our true essence as a baby and are guided by insight, curiosity and love.
Remember Your Essence
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Forgiveness is a process and it’s hard. It’s also a choice. We can choose to let go of the anger without condoning the behavior. It can be truly liberating. On the flip side, apologizing gracefully and effectively is a learned skill. It’s all part of this complicated messiness that we called being human.
Forgiveness and Apologies
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This expression has come to me in a big way lately. It means relaxing into a situation rather than trying to change or control it. It’s letting go of what no longer serves us. “Flow” itself is also a concept worth exploring. When we are in flow, our skill set matches the challenge. We are at our best when we are in flow. Poem is “From a Letter to his Daughter” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go With The Flow
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Live Like You’re Dying In our society many of us feel uncomfortable talking about death. What I have learned is that death is a wonderful teacher. It teaches us to live bravely and open. It teaches us about what/who is important, and helps us quickly prioritize. Michael Singer says in his book, The Untethered Soul, “Death gives meaning to your life. It helps you get your life back by making you pay attention to this moment.”
Live Like You’re Dying
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As we continue on the path towards inner growth and development, we may find some of our people are along the ride and some aren’t. Not everyone can deal with change and that’s ok. We can let them go with love and gratitude. How we practice well-being, in this case by keeping those who lift us close and letting the others go with love, is a form of compassion towards ourselves. It’s not tender; it’s brave and it’s fierce.
Your “Board of Directors”
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Our bodies are uniquely ours. If we could see them as something beautifully created and crafted, we can have a healthy relationship with them. In today’s Wednesday Wisdom I invite you to see your body as a tree - strong, natural, beautiful, unique. Shout out to #eveensler for the inspiration and my friend Eileen Wainwright for loving her tree.
Love Your Tree
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In today’s Wednesday Wisdom we explore how we can change our story so that it is more suited to the present moment. Our stories have shaped our reality but they may not serve us anymore and can in fact keep us stuck. The invitation is to move from the constraints of an old story to retelling it with openness and possibility.
You Can Change Your Story
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