Into the Land of Monsters
Beneath the self you show the world lives the land of monsters — and beneath that, the radiant being you really are. This walk goes through all three layers: the teaching, the workbook, the monsters met in real life, and the joy on the other side. Begin by watching the teaching that maps the journey.
Into the Land of Monsters
You've seen the three layers, and that the way through is noticing — the monsters shifting from facts to beliefs written on your glasses. Here's another door into the same territory: speak them aloud to someone listening with commitment, and what felt like solid fact loosens its grip in the very saying of it. Let's continue.
Land of Monsters
Don't leave this as a map. Take out a pen and walk all three layers — who you want to be seen as, who you're afraid you are, and what you really are. Be brave; you can always destroy the paper later.
Into the Land of Monsters: Personal Journey Workbook
Watch the outer shell being built in real time — on a boat to Yelapa, a mind calculating its worth through a stranger's eyes. Let's go deeper into why we construct it, and what it's so afraid the monsters will show.
How self-worth gets all screwed up
Now meet a monster face to face. After almost four decades of sharing a body with Hunger Monster, I went looking for it on purpose, in an Italian restaurant in Boulder — and on the way met a tiny frightened child, too scared to ask for more bread. Come sit at the table with me.
Facing Hunger Monster: For Anyone Struggling with Food, Diets, Body Shame, and Weight
When the voices of self-blame are this loud, here's something you can do right away. Say it out loud — so what — and keep saying it until you let that energy in and see the complete emptiness of blaming yourself. What is there really to blame yourself for?
So What, Now What
So What shows you the emptiness of blaming yourself, right now. Here's what becomes possible when the root itself is met — decades of shame dissolved, not by understanding basic goodness but by knowing it in the body. Let's go and dance in the shower.
From Shame to Joy: Leave your Inner Critic Behind
Now let it land in you, not just in my story. Read this one out loud, slowly, and feel — not think about — the goodness no thought can touch. You are as needed as the trees.
Feeling Bad About Yourself? Read this out loud