On Tuesday night, I completed the Landmark Forum in Atlanta. It was by far the most transformational course I’ve ever taken in my life and I wanted to share the new possibilities that opened up for me. Upon registering for the Forum, participants are asked to consider an important area of their life they would like to focus on. My first reaction was “how do I choose just one!?” I was reassured that the focus area would be more of a doorway into the concepts/ assignments and that the overall experience of the course would likely affect many other important areas too. With that, I chose the grief and suffering from this intense year of loss. To be perfectly honest, I wanted to break free from the prison cell of grief for both my family and myself in the wake of Mark’s suicide. About halfway through the first day and in a very public share-turned-coaching session, I suddenly realized I didn’t actually want that freedom because my story around such freedom would mean that I abandoned … [Read more...]