Survey says...

Thanks, again, to each of you who took the time to answer my brief and anonymous survey about what you want from this blog and (soon-coming) podcast.  I am truly grateful to be in community with people who are so in-touch with themselves.

Some of you expressed interest in the responses.  So below I'm sharing a few of the most common answers to the fill-in questions.  I do this not only to honor your curiosity, but also to melt some of the isolation we live with.  Please pay close attention to how you feel when you read these answers:

What QUESTIONS would you like me to answer on my blog/podcast?

• "How to stay true to oneself?"
• "How do you manage the daily challenges of being a sensitive, awake and highly creative soul in this world?"
• "How to use my empathy and sensitivity gifts in the world."
• "what's the next step at my age"
• "When/How should one make career moves"
• "How do I get and stay both true and whole? How do I find inner and outer support for creating sustainable income"

Please describe your greatest pain AT HOME.

• "Presence with my children"
• "never being satisfied"
• "Isolation."
• "The interruptions of my deep-focus time by the loved one/s I live with."
• "Not feeling fully expressed in my brilliance."
• "My greatest pain at home is having to coexist with other people. My spouse is unbelievably challenging and I find myself constantly falling into daydreams of being single where I enjoy vast amounts of solitude, space, and time to sort through my thoughts."

Please describe your greatest pain AT WORK.

• "Being true to myself"
• "Working for an ineffective leader"
• "No longer applicable, yet when I did, my greatest pain was knowing the only thing worthwhile about my job was connecting to other people. I also loathe the concept of needing money."
• "Financial inadequacy, inability to have the passion and purpose match the physical rewards/returns"
• "not having a job"
• "Having to totally (or so it feels) invent ways to make a living that both work with my HSP needs (which include working with meaning and being of service from my best, most joyful skills) and bring in enough money."

Please describe your greatest pain WITHIN YOU.

• "Regrets about the past"
• " Trauma. Guilt. Shame. Ignorance to truth because I was slighted useful knowledge in my youth. Fear. Fear that I don't have time to clean my slate and fill my plate. (And share my leftovers)"
• "fear of failing myself and others"
• "Loss and loneliness in a world full of people separating themselves from each other due to deep loss and loneliness."
• "HEARTBROKEN"
• "Not feeling I'm nearly close to what I came here to do.... and not feeling clear about what that is!"

Did any of the answers above resemble your own?  If so, what do you think you might want to do with that sense of shared humanity... now knowing that you are not alone... that your fears and pains are shared by many others? 

By answering in the comment section below, you give someone else -- another reader -- the gift you just received.  See how it goes round and round?  Risking "TMI" also opens us to the possibility of "TLC."  Okay, let's hear from YOU now.
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P.S.  The survey is now closed, but I am always interested to know what topics and information you feel in need of.  Please toss those requests in the comments, too.