Sophie's Challenges

It never ceases to amaze me, how it happens that I click on a Sophie article and stumble upon one that is so perfectly timely for exactly where I am... I'm sure I'm not the only one to experience that regularly, as Sophie's articles seem to all still be so timely and so relevant, no matter how old t...

I've been working on my attitude the last few days. My dad and I used to be very close, and now it seems like I'm someone he doesn't know well and doesn't like. My attitude was one of resisting him, avoiding him as much as possible, not reaching out to him. I think my attitude was all about ME- bein...

I'm just going to post this for what it's worth... Sophie used to say off & on over the time that I knew her that all of the 'gurus' had a truth value of about 1% or 10%, including that Abraham / Esther thing, but that the Abraham thing was the one that comes the closest to how things are. A fri...

Wow, it's been almost two months since I posted here. I've been thinking that once I'm back home & settled I'll start up again. I traveled back east, I thought for 4 days, on August 1st. Here it is Sept. 15th and I'm still here, taking care of my dad. So I guess now is as good a time as any to j...

It's so interesting, now that Sophie is gone, to notice the things that stand out the most from her teaching - it's not the things I would have guessed would stand out the most. I think the biggest thing that keeps popping up in my mind, whenever I notice that I'm entitled, or frustrated, or saying ...

I've been reading some older articles about being 'stuck'. Stuck being, as the article said: "the lack of movement, even though there is sense that movement is needed. Needed by the person, not the circumstance. That ‘I am not at the right place, not doing the right thing‘ feeling. Horrible… de...

I'm remembering some of the things that stuck out in my mind that Sophie said - the biggest one being, without a project, there can be no growth. I've had a project recently of getting our new house all set up, with specific goals and a beginning and end point - so simple and elementary, but I have ...

Thank you so much for this post Julia, I'm finding it so very helpful. 'I have to' has been one of my most persistent shoulds...it's become habitual, part of my scrambling to be busy to cover the fact that I'm not doing things that would make my life meaningful or more productive. I remember that th...

I think I saw something today that I didn't put together before, along the lines of 'A is A'. My issue is always that underneath it, I don't want A to be A, and whatever I'm seeing as "A" is wrong. A isn't what it should be.... I'm not what or who I should be. I think what I haven't gotten...

I have to admit that over the last two crazy, hectic months of moving and looking at starting the business Sophie encouraged me to start, I lost sight of my purpose to life challenge.... my purpose was to feel like I have a life partner who is on the same team, where communication is easy and enjoya...