Redefining true masculine power opens the floodgates to healing men and society as a whole — When the floodgate of sexual harassment and rape allegations against powerful men in media and politics opened this past Fall 2017, it sparked a long overdue national conversation about … [Read more...] about To Be a Man: Fully Facing Rape and Awakening to True Masculine Power
Spirituality, Faith & Intuition
The Ripple: How Intuitive Writing Can Change the World, One Word at a Time
A woman’s journey through intuitive writing connects us all to a process for healing the pain of the past — On Christmas Eve I pressed send on a 65,000-word memoir, Love in a Nightmare, detailing the wounds of my childhood. It was attached to an email to my family. The process of … [Read more...] about The Ripple: How Intuitive Writing Can Change the World, One Word at a Time
Was it Luck or Was it…You?
Your successes and good fortune have nothing to do with luck — I have always considered myself lucky because of the many gifts I’ve gotten in life: a loving husband, a loving family, great friends (not many, but true ones), a healthy body, a healthy mind, the home I live in, … [Read more...] about Was it Luck or Was it…You?
The Art of De-Cluttering: A Tiny House Creates A Surprising Catalyst for Expansion
Downsizing to a tiny house brings consciousness to how de-cluttering your life in all aspects creates space for healing, expansion and new paradigms — When I tell people I sold a 2,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bathroom house (as well as almost all of its contents) to live … [Read more...] about The Art of De-Cluttering: A Tiny House Creates A Surprising Catalyst for Expansion
More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us
A rabbi’s story of the redemptive power of pain — how suffering can provide a window of transformation — There is a crack in everything. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Every one of us sooner or later walks through hell. The hell of being hurt or the hell of hurting another. The hell … [Read more...] about More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us
From The Eye of The Storm: A Personal Account of Stage 4 Cancer
Photograph by Anna Bay A 37-year old mother’s raw account of her battle with stage 4 breast cancer — squeezing the joy from amidst her struggle — What is it like to have cancer? Hmm, the best way to describe it is your life gets flash-forwarded, flipped, turned upside … [Read more...] about From The Eye of The Storm: A Personal Account of Stage 4 Cancer
Letting Everything In and Through | Explorations of the Human Experience
A poetic exploration of the human experience in all of its guts and glory — Let me keep surrendering myself until I am utterly transparent. —Psalm 19 The ultimate value of staying open is that we’re scoured clean of all that might burden us: memories, wounds, assumptions, and … [Read more...] about Letting Everything In and Through | Explorations of the Human Experience
The Secret Side of Grief: The Culture of Blame
Exploring the dark corner of grief and suffering: blame — There’s such a pervasive weirdness in our culture around grief and death. We judge, and then we blame, dissect, and minimize. People look for the flaws in what someone did to get to this place: She didn’t exercise enough. … [Read more...] about The Secret Side of Grief: The Culture of Blame
Integrity as Your Beacon | What Our Bodies Tell Us About the Choices We Make
Listening To What Our Bodies Have To Say About The Choices We Are Making — A person of integrity is someone whose life isn’t full of contradictions. They do as they say, and they say as they do. Who they are on the inside is who they are on the outside, and who they are on the … [Read more...] about Integrity as Your Beacon | What Our Bodies Tell Us About the Choices We Make
Tenderly Holding the Bitter & Sweet: Finding Gratitude Within Life’s Beauty and Pain
Finding gratitude for the whole of life, the bitter and the sweet, the suffering and good fortune — I am grateful every day. I am lucky to live with a husband I adore and our sweet dog in the Catskill Mountains of NY. I have family who loves me, the best friends, and I get to … [Read more...] about Tenderly Holding the Bitter & Sweet: Finding Gratitude Within Life’s Beauty and Pain
Practice You | Coming Home to Your Inner Self Through Journaling
Expressing your inner most thoughts and feelings in a daily journal is a healthy and easy way to practice being the best YOU ____________________________ That tiny key with a pink ribbon running through it — I can still feel the weight of it in my flawless little hand. Aside from … [Read more...] about Practice You | Coming Home to Your Inner Self Through Journaling
Restoration: A Poem
restoration the truth has been patiently walking beside me periodically darting out in an attempt to capture my attention then today it just gently reached over held my hand and gave it a squeeze reminding me that i do want and need and love so this is what it feels like to … [Read more...] about Restoration: A Poem
