Online existential and spiritual counselling with Todd Blattner, MA, CCC — for the deeper journey inward.
What do we do if our world stops making sense?
How can we navigate if things lose their meaning?
What if it feels like nothing matters anymore?
Sometimes it's trauma that brings us to the edge of emptiness. An accident, a disaster, abuse that we try to forget or ignore. Childhood experiences that haunt us and colour our world with leftover fear, anger and shame.
Depression can bring us near the edge. So can too much change, too fast.
Sometimes we feel broken, with or without a reason.
Sometimes it's nothing in particular. Just a growing sense of disconnection.
It's also possible to have enough success or enough of everything we are supposed to want and still feel empty inside.
How many of us go through our days wondering what is the point?
How many of us feel like life is passing us by while we are missing the actual “Being Alive” part?
Few people ever understand that the emptiness is not an enemy.
There is a deeper journey to be made, into the stillness, into the deep places beyond our ideas of “self”. Deeper than thoughts. Even deeper than feelings.
This deeper journey can be thought of as “awakening.” Not the flashy romantic kind in movies with gurus and “special” people. It's just an ordinary, gradual realization that we are more than we realized, and so is everyone else.
It also takes courage to realize that we are less than we wish to believe. Less our ego. More what is underneath. But that is what we have been looking for…
Who are we when we Stop?
This is the inward journey.
A journey of discovery.
A journey back to who you are.
This is your journey.
And, if you would like a companion and guide,
I can help you to find your path.
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This is where the qualifications, the degrees, the credentials, lose their meaning.
This is where we learn that letting everything be as it is — letting go of control, letting go of judgment, letting go of expectations — is a practice of transformation.
The question is, what can take you deeper into your heart? What can take you deeper into your embodiment?
What can help you to see the gifts of your suffering and your challenges?
What can help you to understand your own worth and beauty — and in so doing be able to better appreciate the worth and beauty of others as well?
I don't have the answers. But I can help you to find your own, and we each must find our own.
This is the journey of discovering yourself — and it's yours to take.
If this makes sense to you, or if you would like it to, let's talk.
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When I look inside, and see that I am nothing,
This is wisdom.
When I look outside, and see that I am everything,
This is love.
Between these two, my world turns.
— Nisargadatta MaharajA free reflection on what awakening really is — and a few simple practices to help you find your way there.
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A Reflection and a Few Simple Practices
