Tasha Harmon
He Asked If I Needed Help – Why Did I React So Defensively?
I am a super competent person. Or at least, I am super attached to my sense of myself as a super competent person. I have always known I...
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Tasha Harmon
- Jan 2
- 3 min
What Are You Going to Steer By This Year?
My last two weeks of December have been… not at all what I expected. My elderly parents came down with COVID right before Christmas, and...
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Tasha Harmon
- Dec 21, 2023
- 2 min
My Wish for All of Us, on the Winter Solstice
This is the Winter Solstice – the longest night of the year. For me, it’s a time for reflection, for sitting with and in the darkness, in...
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Tasha Harmon
- Dec 10, 2023
- 1 min
Accepting the Invitations of the Season
Over the last few weeks, as the days have gotten shorter and shorter and shorter, with darkness arriving by 4:30 now here at 45.5152° N,...
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Tasha Harmon
- Nov 27, 2023
- 2 min
You Don't Have to Rush to Catch the Stillness Train
In my last blog post, I wrote about softening into change. For me, stillness is often a pathway to softening. Creating a pause can create...
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Tasha Harmon
- Oct 31, 2023
- 3 min
Softening Into Change
I wrote this poem in November of 2003, in Syracuse NY, where I was teaching at a national conference. It was a time in my life when I...
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Tasha Harmon
- Oct 31, 2023
- 3 min
Sometimes, Getting It All Done is Not the Important Thing
My parents are in their late 80s, and my mother is descending into dementia. It’s been a slow fall, over more than a decade now, but it’s...
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Tasha Harmon
- Oct 23, 2023
- 2 min
What Are You Growing Out Of?
My partner and I were talking, years ago, with my brother, his wife, and their then almost 6-year-old son. The four of us adults were...
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Tasha Harmon
- Oct 9, 2023
- 2 min
Focusing on What’s Needed
When we are navigating difficult and demanding situations (making tough decisions, managing big transitions, etc.), it is helpful to...
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Tasha Harmon
- Sep 25, 2023
- 3 min
The Power of the Pause in Transitions
Image of leaf-covered tree branches reaching down toward a pool of blue water, the shadow of the branches visible in the water. A sliver...
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Tasha Harmon
- Sep 11, 2023
- 2 min
There are reasons we never feel like we are doing or being “enough.”
In this recent post, I talked about shifting from the “Am I (doing/being) enough?” framework to a framework of “Is what I’m doing...
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Tasha Harmon
- Aug 28, 2023
- 3 min
What Are You Resisting?
Why do we resist things we know would be good for us? We all have things that we know we want to be doing – or want to have done and...
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Tasha Harmon
- Aug 22, 2023
- 2 min
“Enough” is the Wrong Measuring Stick
“It feels like I can’t ever do enough.” “I wish I felt like that was enough.” “We can never do enough to meet the need.” I hear this, and...
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Tasha Harmon
- Aug 7, 2023
- 2 min
Transforming "Why" to "What"
Often, when we are feeling stuck and frustrated, we are asking ourselves, or our colleagues or friends, "why" questions: Why is this so...
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