The Beer Ranch Blog

Do you need a path to peace?

Small confrontations. They can rattle you for sure. Sometimes one will shake you deep enough that you find yourself wondering “why did that make me do this” after the fact. Stop. Take a moment and recognize you are being handed an opportunity to discharge an...

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Are the horses calling you?

On a misty morning, she appeared at my round pen. Her heart was heavy and her soul tattooed with patterns she knew were no longer random. Her wonder had lead her here —  her desire to gain mastery over the things she could control and a need to respond with grace...

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Do you have a happiness compass?

As a culture, we are focused on finding happiness. So many of us, however, have never thought deeply about what happiness might actually look like when it shows up at our door. Stop and think about the word “blissful.” Blissful is the term for “perfect happiness.”...

Do you want to make a BIG play?

At first it may be a little niggling. A something inside you that begins to shift and move because you see a possibility. And then it grows and you find yourself at the precipice of something much bigger than you anticipated. Hesitation … is this the right play or the...

Do you show up for yourself?

So many of us haven’t taken the time to think about who we are in the world since we left high school or college. The aptitude tests disappeared, the school counselor fell out of our lives, and people stopped asking us what we want to be when we grow up. We became who...

How do you interact with challenge?

I don’t sew and the reason I tell myself I don’t sew is because I can never get my finished project to look like it does in my head. The edges of the material never seem to come together the way I promised myself they would and that leaves me frustrated. This means I...

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Do you have a happiness compass?

As a culture, we are focused on finding happiness. So many of us, however, have never thought deeply about what happiness might actually look like when it shows up at our door. Stop and think about the word “blissful.” Blissful is the term for “perfect happiness.”...

read more

Do you want to make a BIG play?

At first it may be a little niggling. A something inside you that begins to shift and move because you see a possibility. And then it grows and you find yourself at the precipice of something much bigger than you anticipated. Hesitation … is this the right play or the...

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