SELF APPRECIATION: “Born to Write”
LISTEN BELOW TO A LIVE IMAGO “SELF-APPRECIATION” DIALOGUE BETWEEN MICHAEL AND AMY SHERMAN OF COURAGEOUS LOVING.
“Tramps like us, baby we were born to run…” 
Bruce Sprinsteen wrote those words. But I have to change them for me – because I was born to write.
What’s tremendous about producing Courageous Loving and working with my wife – helping people to discover and live out their destinies through the clues that their relationships give them – is that it offers me a vehicle to do what I have always done: write! Only now, I can do so with a purpose, with a daily discipline and daily readers. In helping people to awaken to their destinies, I have awakened to my own.
And maybe this sounds a little silly. I mean, I have been writing all my life. I’ve got stacks and stacks of notebooks. I’ve got 8 drafts of 3 unpublished books. I’ve got a crate full of articles, movie reviews and other work gathering dust in the basement. Lots of projects started, very few finished. But I’m a writer…, right? Of course I am. Here is what’s different now: I’m making a commitment to find an audience for my words. The commitment is the difference.
Seth Godin, one of the foremost writers on social media in this new generation, says in his book Tribes, “A movement is waiting to happen, a group of people just waiting to be energized and transformed.” Let my words be the the beginning of this movement, of people who are looking to answer the question: “Who are my relationships calling me to become?“
It starts with me. And my relationship. See, what’s so cool about doing a Self-Appreciation Imago Dialogue (a twist Amy and I created from the Imago Appreciation Dialogue – for more on Imago, click: HERE) – is that I can connect with myself in the loving presence of my partner. I can feel the memories of discovery roll through my body — the echoes of the “fanzines” I started, the undergound newspaper that nearly got me suspended, the spoken word pieces I gutted out on stage — these things flash through me like electric currents, all while my wife holds the space for a complete experience of myself.
Her receiving of me allows me to understand the natural progression of my own life. Through engaging in dialogue, she allows me to claim my own unique destiny. I can not only claim the writer within me, but through the courage my relationship provides me, I am ready to find readers…. everyday.
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Warmly, Michael
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