Tag: subconscious resistance

  • Getting to the Top

    Getting to the Top

    I’m writing to you from an elevation of about 7,500 feet. Right now, I’m on tour in Montana with The Crossing, and every morning, I have gotten up and gone for a walk. A walk in Montana is actually a hike, especially where we are staying. There are lots of hiking trails around here and…

  • The Power of No

    The Power of No

    I’ve always had a hard time saying no. Call it social conditioning, the patriarchy, people-pleasing, what-have-you… all I can say is that when someone asks me to do something, my knee-jerk reaction is to say yes. Whether or not I actually want to do it. At the beginning of my career, the ability to say…

  • Otis the Escalator

    Otis the Escalator

    One of my earliest (and scariest) memories involved a crowd, a monster, and unrelenting forward progression. There we were, in the middle of a Macy’s on a busy afternoon, and my dad was teaching me how to ride the escalator. It wasn’t going well. At all. Until this moment, every time the two of us…