What’s in the Water?

Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream

In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.

Molly Gordon
Recent articles

How to Find Your Way When the Way Isn’t Clear

Sometimes life is like flying an airplane in a dense fog. Fortunately every human being comes equipped with an instrument panel. Here's a crucial tip for using it wisely to find your way when you are lost or confused. As a coach I work with a handful of special...

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How to Deal with Racing Thoughts

Ever deal with racing thoughts? What's up with that? Here's a simple key to finding peace. As a coach I work with a handful of special clients to understand the spiritual principles behind the human experience so that they can reliably access and trust their creative...

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What to Do About Insecure Thinking 

Clients often ask me what to do about insecure thinking. What practices can they undertake to prevent insecurity from arising? How can the control their thought processes? It turns out that the answer is much simpler than prevention or control. As a coach I work with...

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How Big Should a Life Be?

Should it be as big as possible? And big in terms of what? Money? Prestige? Power? I'd like to suggest that bigness is at best a poor measure of the value and import of a life. Rather than size or scope, I suggest we look to characteristics such as grace, relatedness,...

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Happiness Doesn’t Need to Be Justified

What makes for a happy and successful life? It may take a whole lot less than you think. Consider the possibility of happiness without justification. As a coach I work with a handful of special clients to understand the spiritual principles behind the human experience...

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Why You Don’t Need to Manage Your Self-Image

Have you ever felt like the biggest thing standing between you and the way you want your life to be is your self-image? If so, this one's for you. Do you sometimes feel like you're peering into the mist, and the longer and harder you look, the less clear things seem...

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What Are We Trusting When We “Trust the Process”?

I'm writing this post a few hours after being the guest master coach for the Moore Master Coaching program. Coaching in front of an audience is the perfect setup for self-consciousness. Naturally, I think, thoughts arose about how to produce a result, whether or not...

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