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 Do You Know Which Thoughts to Believe?

"The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one." This quote from Rumi offers guidance for which thoughts to follow and which to discard. Have you suspected or seen through the limitations of New Age magical thinking, but...

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Traction and the Goal Paradox

There's a paradox around goal setting that, if you don't understand it, can keep you from getting traction with the things that matter. Yes, you need to set goals to get traction, but you also need to hold them lightly. Have you suspected or seen through the...

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How do you get off the dang dime?

We've all been there, perched on the brink of something new. Full of ideas and inspiration. Eager to make something happen. And yet... Life has a way of getting in the way sometimes. Or not life exactly, but how we hold things in our lives. How we imagine them, relate...

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Can Being Spiritual Make You Happy?

Practicing spirituality to attain happiness can't work. Happiness is in our nature; it's the ground of our being. We lose sight of that in the midst of our human experience, but it never goes away. Happiness is not something to attain, it's something to come from....

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Anxiety Is Always About Ego

Anxiety Is Always About Ego When we have anxiety about asking for something--asking a client for a testimonial, asking a prospective client to hire you, or making any other request--we may think we're anxious because we don't want to impose, but it's always because...

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Two Reasons You May Not Be Getting Traction

What's going on when you can't get traction with a project that's important to you? It's always either something in your environment or what's going on between your ears. If it's not the environment, odds are that you're thinking about yourself instead of about thing...

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