Your Big Dream
I had already lived out and created my big dream. I recently realized that the gap between where I am now and my big dream was that I didn't think the next dream could be BIG. I'd already created something truly impactful and huge that consumed me body mind and...
Interconnected universe {#4 in my series on resilience}
Knowing, also, as even the scientific world attests, that we are apart of an interconnected universe, in which the smallest movement of a butterfly's wing could actually have an effect on the whole system, I can imagine that each of us generates ripples of influence...
Resilience + A Super Simple Map to Check Your Location {#3 in my series on resilience}
I was in the midst of a series of posts on resilience when my own life rose up in a huge distracting way and I needed to put all my mental, emotional, spiritual, financial resources toward facilitating this HUGE shift. Reserves of resilience were required....
When I’m Feeling Bad, I Forget What To Do
I've had several conversations in the last few weeks where the person I'm speaking to is having an emotional struggle. I listen. And at some point say, "You know, maybe tapping would be good for this...or a forgiveness tool...or a nap." In every case the other...
May You Live To Be 100! {#2 in my series on resilience}
Baba died last year just before her 99th birthday. She spent her last decade in care homes after she had become blind. You could hear her universal salutation when anyone left her room or her presence... "May you live to be 100!" and it didn't matter who it...
Resilience + Persistent Creativity {#1 in my series on resilience}
I realized this week, my heart has been slowly healing through what Dr. Joan Borysenko terms "radical creativity". For 19 months, I've unconsciously been engaged in an ongoing, focussed, baby-stepped creation here in our garden...an act of what I would call...
Pray for Best Outcome
Angeles Arrien, anthropologist + author, speaks of 4 guiding principles in life: 1. Show up. 2. Pay attention. 3. Speak your truth. 4. Don't be attached to outcome. Jean Shinoda Bolen alters that slightly: 1. Show up. 2. Pay attention. 3. Speak your...
Listening Imperative: what does THE BODY want?
some bodies crave sun some bodies crave wind some want crisp mountain air some wish for sleep sometimes your body will express your feelings as symptoms of pain or symptoms of emotion Did you know that unacknowledged anger, resentment, hostility or tension from...
How Catwoman Stalks Her Own Business
Last week I was speaking to a beautiful, talented young woman just starting her own business. I recommended for her to read Lessons of a Lipstick Queen by Poppy King. I recommended it because I love Poppy’s super engaging, creative way of talking about building a...
What Really Caused My Writer’s Block
Sticky Emotions I’ve been deep in planning (for a few months) which as most of us know is code for de-cluttering, reorganizing, getting clear and making changes. What I always forget is that sometimes deep planning necessitates grieving and letting go. Those sticky...
How to Overcome BlogWriter’s Block
1. Recognize that you are blocked. (There may be some crankiness involved) 2. Accept that you are blocked. (There are some really good reasons you are blocked) 3. Do some forgiveness work on some area of your life. (This will release some feel good feelings that...
Addiction is a Spiritual Malady
There is something missing, something that needs to be healed and we try to fill this void. The addiction takes you away from the spirit and you try to fill it with food, power, work, material goods, shopping, sex, gambling. The roots are deep in childhood or perhaps...