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...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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, … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Can’t Take My Old Self With Me
We can’t take our old selves with our limited-thinking baggage into our new evolutionary selves. And why would we want to? __________________________ Life is a learning and growing process. It’s uncomfortable and rarely ever straightforward. It … [Read more...]
The Hidden School: Musings, Reflections and Trusting the Timing
Musings, Reflections and Trusting the Timing: Introductory remarks by Dan Millman author of The Hidden School _________________________________ Maybe you've heard the story about a master artist who sculpted beautiful dogs from blocks of wood. … [Read more...]
Finding Your Inner Compass
We each possess a special tool to help us decide what is best for us — our Inner Compass, an inner resource that you can learn to tap into by following these simple steps __________________________________ You have an Inner Compass. We all do. … [Read more...]
May Cause Love | A Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion
One woman’s journey to help others who have had an abortion transform their grief, regrets and conflicting emotions into healing practices and principles ____________________________________ At 19, I sat in the waiting room of my college’s medical … [Read more...]
Danielle LaPorte: How to be truly wise? Rock your paradoxes
Danielle Laporte's White Hot Truth — Paradoxes, Passion & Pursuit _______________________________ Thank the lies for showing you the truth. ~Danielle LaPorte Paradoxes. Passion. Pursuit. The human experience rolled up in the prose of … [Read more...]
