Tag Archive: ego

Oct 24

Playing teacher

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October 24, 2012

I volunteer to read with an elementary school-age child once a week. This year I’m paired with an absolutely marvelous child (I’ll call her Clara). Due to privacy issues I can’t tell you anything about her, but I can tell you the revelation I had today while sitting with her.

Clara is a good reader …

Tags: calling, childhood, ego, reading, spiritual teacher, student, teacher, teaching

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Jun 14

Learning (wait for it) patience

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Career, Miracles

by Leah Carey

June 14, 2012

A couple of months ago, I started doing some layout at the newspaper. Often it’s just one page a day, but sometimes it’s as much as 8 pages in a day. I enjoy it – it activates that part of my brain that really loves two-dimensional puzzles.

However…I’m really, really, really, really slooooooooooooow at it. …

Tags: ego, frustration, layout, learning, newspaper, perfection, victory

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Leah Carey is a transformational workshop leader, author, speaker, and life coach. She is also a journalist for a daily newspaper covering approximately 50 communities in northern New Hampshire and Vermont. Far from being born a natural optimist, Leah has spent time in the trenches. For over two decades she struggled with chronic depression, believing that no matter how hard she worked or how much she accomplished, she was never good enough and no one could ever understand.