Celebrating love and friendship
How your feel in your body hearing the word “love”? What about Valentine’s day? Do you like it, hate it, or have no feelings about it? Yesterday, I was talking with Pete about Valentine’s Day. He said doesn’t like it…
Thank you for being part of our year!
This is Pete. Tuulia usually writes these newsletters. Over the past few days, while Tuulia and I have huddled and cuddled here in our candlelit log cabin beside frozen Lake Vaavu in Finland, I’ve been thinking back on 2018 and…
Celebrating men!
The 19th of November was International Men's Day. [Note: I wrote this a few weeks ago and Pete procrastinated on posting it until now.] Lately, I’ve been thinking about men and the tight boxes and role models that many men…
Completion talks
In Radical Honesty, we often talk about “completion talks” or “honest conversations.” We highly encourage people to complete the unfinished business from their past. Yet, what exactly does this mean? Completing incomplete things from the past is about having conversations…
Addictions
I’m Tuulia—and I’m a workaholic. Often, upon awaking, I plan to work for just one hour. I begin working and then, four hours later, I find myself still working without even having eaten breakfast. Other times, I decide I’m taking…
Today I choose loving
“Today, I choose to be with you.” This is what Pete and I say to each other daily. We got married earlier this month and we want to continue this practice. Even though we made a commitment in front of…
Teamwork and support
In 2012, I participated in my first Radical Honesty workshop with Brad Blanton in Greece. I was fascinated and also a little scared. I was absolutely wowed and knew that this was what I wanted for myself. I had started…
Anger and connection
Many times, I have chosen to not be very personal and vulnerable about my life online. At this moment, I feel different. I want to share with you an incident I had with my husband(-to-be) Pete, when I made myself…
Dreams and reflections for 2018
I'm not a big fan of traditional New Year’s resolutions. However, I believe noting down thoughts about the coming year can be valuable as long as I make them inspirations and wants and not yet more shoulds and musts. I…