1 hour ago · Life · 0 comments

Well here we are. Laura's on sabbatical, John's looking for a job, and We Are (no longer) Open. It's been quite the week.To be honest, it's been less outwardly emotional than I was expecting, but a couple of migraines as I headed into the weekend suggested that I've probably still got some inner work to do.A workshop I attended on Friday run by Annalise Lewis entitled Myths We Live By: Metaphor as a Tool for Empowering Change came at just the right time. I knew I was in the a good space when one of the early slides featured a section of a John Martin engraving alongside the words “metaphors are the language of the subconscious.”Annalise had us do an activity in which we closed our eyes (I know, I know) and she used Clean Language questions to help guide us through some metaphors. I have to work hard at these moments to suspend disbelief, and managed to do so successfully enough to come up with a really weird hybrid metaphor.Understanding that this will be about as interesting to other…

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