The Road Less Traveled

Laurel Irwin
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Connecting the dots, exploring the corners we take for granted. Colouring each section of the canvas with more detail through Conversation. Sharing stories in depth.

  1. Mar 9

    31. Stealing Agency

    Who do we feel most loved by? People who empower us and ignite our own capability? Or those who do our work for us? Whether we're talking about our spouse, friends, or children, I don't think it's loving to do anything (repeatedly, long-term) for them that they can do for themselves. Read this article here: https://substack.com/@roadlesstraveledonline/p-190405800

    5 min
  2. 30. Chris Poffenroth and Pilgrim's Progress

    Jan 1

    30. Chris Poffenroth and Pilgrim's Progress

    Chris tells his story of escaping Canada and sailing solo to Mexico. Plenty of obstacles appeared, dangers threatened, and misadventures occurred, but God provided and rescued at every step along the way. To learn more and support Chris' ministry: https://www.kingdomvoyages.org

    3h 35m

  3. 03/06/2025

    29. Direction Versus Destination

    From: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156816900 Each and every action has a direction. We need a vision, but it need not be an inflexible blueprint of specific timelines and circumstances. The first step is know yourself. What are you good at, what do you love? What brings you to life, and what opportunities are calling to you? Which lofty ideals, indeed, appealed to you repeatedly since you were young? What do those things feel like, over and above what they might present as? Once we really accept that our individuality is a gift, we can drop the pressure of external expectations, and begin to move in the directionof these aspirations and skills, block time to allow creative inspiration to come to us, and decide whether it’s the gym or the driving range we are going to today. There does, indeed, need to be a pull toward a certain direction, and while we hold that trajectory, we can look down at our feet, be where they are, turn them slightly in the direction of the goal, and do something today that brings us that way. It can be a much more gentle process than we originally thought, in this culture of hurry.

    9 min

  4. 03/06/2025

    28. Truth as the Gateway to Adventure

    How do we transcend the predictable? From: https://substack.com/home/post/p-157117721 Jordan B Peterson: "If you say the truth and nothing else, you will have an immense adventure as a consequence. You will not know what is going to happen to you, but you have to let go of clinging to the outcome. You have to let go. The truth will reveal the world the way it is intended to be revealed. The consequence for you will be that you will have the adventure of your life. The other part of that ethos—which makes perfect sense to me and I cannot see how it can be any other way—is that whatever makes itself manifest as a consequence of the truth is the best possible reality that could be manifest, even if you cannot see it.”

    11 min

  5. 01/30/2025

    27. Individuation as the Pathway to Loving Others

    Perhaps the only way we ever create the room to love others selflessly, to truly desire their growth and flourishing, is to become radically involved in our own journeys.

    6 min

  6. 01/30/2025

    26. Unbelievable

    Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights, page 205 paints a beautiful picture of why the word "unbelievable" diminishes the very things we all want to believe more in.

    7 min

  7. 01/20/2025

    25. The Red Book, 311

    This excerpt from Carl Jung's The Red Book, pages 311-312, explore the idea that striving to see our efforts take shape in the material world bind up the actual power we possess within our minds to remain good, even to be fulfilled at all. Notice the connection between binding up our efforts in material shapes, and the unconscious proclivity to manipulate others and take them into the service of our need for validation. Interestingly, Jung notes that there are many such people desperate to escape their own selves, so we have willing pawns for our scarcity-based formations. Only by integrating, accepting, looking squarely at our propensity for evil and control can we prevent it from overwhelming us or taking others captive.

    5 min

  8. 01/02/2025

    23. Life As A Prey Animal

    To what extent do you want to live your life as a prey animal? In this episode, I explore the dangers and benefits of breaking free from the herd, the marked zebra phenomenon, and missing the safety of what you've left behind. Jordan B. Peterson & Warren Smith Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000679402431 Warren Smith Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SecretScholars

    29 min
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