This is an email from the 8 week ‘Integrity of the Heart’ course:

I had a good coaching conversation with Sarah on Friday about ‘growing up.’ She was experiencing conflict and turmoil in herself, around the whole question of what it means to grow up and be responsible for your own life. When we looked a little more deeply at what was going on, Sarah was able to express quite clearly what growing up means for her right now: Being able to contribute in a genuine way to the lives of other people, and to be able to care for herself at the same time.

I thought this was a great description of human maturity.

When she allowed herself to recognize the simplicity of this, and how true it is for her, she realized that she can align with this kind of growing up, and also be clear about what is not calling her: the rigidity and lack of fluidity and aliveness that happen to so many people when they grow up, when they abandon what is really calling them, and succumb to the pressures of a society that is not serving any of us very well.