Coaching: Growing in Life, Career and living with Asperger's

In the introduction to the acro-yoga analogy, I introduced the three roles.  We'll take a deeper look at the "Base" this time. From the various pictures, it is clear the base holds everything up.  This role isn't glamorous.  It doesn't get the spotlight.  However, it is a vital role.  It is a role that literally holds up the flyer.  The flyer's poise and confidence comes from the base.  Beyond strength, stamina and flexibility, it is trust that enables this pose.  You can be supremely good as the base and excel in all of the needed skills but if the flyer doesn't trust you, there won't be a pose.  It isn't worth risk. What is trust then?  Our experience would equate it to something being reliable.  I trust the bridge I am using.  I trust the brakes in my car.  I trust the teacher in my class to grade fairly.  There are many other examples but these show that we trust because something has in some way shown itself to b...

I am interrupting the series I started last time for this topic.  It can certainly be combined with the ideas that are coming in the "Foundation" on the "acro-yoga" series.  Have you ever wondered what Ephesians 5 is correcting in the marital relationship?  Not just then at that moment for the Corinthians but fundamentally for both persons.  Where did the relationship go wrong? We'll start at the beginning: Genesis.     26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”        27 So God created mankind in his own image,           in the image of God he created them;           male and female he created them.      28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increas...