Sophie's Challenges

I just saw, for the first time, what it truly looks like to live a life you love and live it powerfully...a life that incorporates every one of the points about ego that were in my last post; a life that incorporates all of Sophie's principles into one seamless set of habits and routines; and finall...

I’ve been looking back over notes I’ve taken from Sophie’s articles & workshops and from phone calls with her. I ran across this set of notes about ego that I found helpful…I’m posting them here in case anyone else does as well: Remind yourself how much you don’t know at the library or bookstore...

My life has been a bit of chaos, as I've been clearing out my house to list it and hopefully sell it, and I've had more drama with my husband and the other woman. I've recently changed my 'one thing', to a different daily practice that seems to help me (1) change the way I look at something and (2) ...

In the entire year and a a half that I worked with Sophie, I had one major stumbling block: I never managed to bridge the gap between DOING and BEING. The work I did was, as Sophie put it, done like homework… as I see it, I and the work were separate. I did what I did and reported it to her, and I e...

I just listened to SUCH a great call I had with Sophie a while ago...where I first realized that all of the constant pondering about what I should be doing was pushing me further down the hole of self-concern. It's no different than all of the pondering I've been doing about what I should be doing n...

It was great talking with you Baheej.... as we were talking about our struggles, thinking of all of Sophie's teachings and all that we know we should be doing from what we learned and aren't doing, you said one thing I found so brilliant - and that is, 'we got what we got'. Yes, there was so much to...

I recently listened to one of my very first calls with Sophie, just a week or two after I first met her. The call was a lot more pleasant to listen to, because I hadn't yet headed down the ugly path of hating myself 24/7 for how wrong I am. I was still my cluelessly eager superior self at that point...

Today it occurred to me how so many of Sophie’s teachings tie together. I’m still working on my ‘Purpose to Life’ Challenge. I’m considering what Sophie said about my only having ‘superior and inferior’ and no other distinctions. I’m seeing that when I’m in Superior mode is when I’m not in line with...

I've been thinking more about integrity... I listened to another older Sophie call, and it was about the same thing, but in reference to health, and the 'gap' that we create when we live an inauthentic life, and our word is not impeccable, and we lie, mostly to ourselves. She said it allows 'other t...

I'm still working on my Purpose to Life...I'm noticing that every time I get 'sideways' with it, I'm being entitled, or feeling 'wronged', or I have an expectation that isn't reasonable. One thing I've been mulling over since Sophie's passing is the issue of Integrity....it seems no matter what I ha...