This will turn everything that you have been taught on it’s head. I want to tell you about THE most important step that often gets bypassed, that we completely overlook as valuable, and most often leads to all our problems and dissatisfaction. It is the act of receiving. Not just gifts, attention or people. Receiving
If there is one thing human beings are not running short of, it’s gurus. We have been worshipping idols from the beginning, and it’s not the worshipping itself that is problematic. In fact, it can be wonderful to find a person, character, archetype or God who embodies what resonates with you, deep in your bones.
I was in a grocery store the other day and I was eavesdropping in on a conversation between an elderly woman and a young sales clerk. This young man listened intently to the woman and her question, and it expanded into a full conversation about her life, where she lived, and then what sports he
A tree doesn’t grow simply because it reaches up to the sun, it grows because it reaches deep down into the earth. Have you ever tried to reach for a goal, and maybe you attained it but it didn’t last? Perhaps you have tried to change your mindset SO many times and end up looping
There are moments in our lives that stand out. Where there is a before and an after. Like someone just pulled up an invisible curtain and you can see so clearly what was always there. One of these moments was when I landed upon a description of an emotional empath. I had heard the term
If you are a woman who feels constantly in reaction to others, to your thoughts, to the world, Your body probably feels uneasy and tense, and your breath is either shallow or holding. You are not alone. For millennia, everything in this world sets us up to disconnect from our true selves, From our creative
“There is a field out beyond right and wrong, I’ll meet you there.” Rumi So much of the world right now is caught up in polarities: right and wrong, good and bad, left and right. But have you noticed that the lines between them are getting more and more blurred? What I thought I could
Let’s face it, sensitive people get a bad wrap in our society. Crying at a movie? SO sensitive. Worried about a narcissistic boss? Don’t be so sensitive. Reacting to being bullied, yelled at, or other aggression? Toughen up. What if these were absolutely appropriate, adaptive and resilient responses to a humanity where we are all
You might be thinking that I was really depressed, flopped out on the couch or decided to walk away from something. The truth is, I gave up running from myself. Do you know that pattern? And I stopped following the “I should really…” and the “I better….” and the “What if’s” that were keeping me
We spend our lives trying to be the observers of the catastrophe, rather than being in the catastrophe. Turns out, neither is a great place to be. First of all, my heart goes out to all the people of the Ukraine who are fleeing or fighting in an untenable situation, and all the people of
