I’m an average middle-class worker, a registered nurse, pursuing integration of work, home, and community. One seamless, healthy existence lived out in many contexts, seeking to move with openness and curiosity first, then advocacy; Held as a small, beloved part inside a much larger, mysterious story. I draw on many perspectives and disciplines to explore how my/our participation in a broken system may contribute to wholeness, reconciliation, and (if at all possible) redemption.
Nothing complicates a core value faster than a competing commitment. The fear that gets in the way of hope. Kegan and Lahey describe it as “… having one foot on the gas and one foot on the break…”
Identifying core values is the first step. But if you know your core values and still struggle to center your life around them, then perhaps what’s needed is some quality time spent identifying and dismantling the big, hidden, assumptions.