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 clinic, clasping my sweaty hands and trying to think of all the reasons why there ... Read More about May Cause Love | A Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion
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Divine Alchemy | A Journey to My Authentic Self
Your authentic self, and true freedom, derives from within, detached from external answers or validation — The time has come to realize that I am no longer unequipped. The time has come to embrace the power I possess. No longer do I need to look outside of myself for answers that are so ... Read More about Divine Alchemy | A Journey to My Authentic Self
Could You Love Your Body, Really? | Shifting your Body Identity
Shifting Your Body Identity Can Shift Your Entire Life — If you had told me five years ago that I would be on stage talking to Oprah about my lifelong struggle with my weight, I would have said you were nuts. This very private daily battle with my body was my most fiercely guarded secret of ... Read More about Could You Love Your Body, Really? | Shifting your Body Identity
Enoughness: A Journey of Self-Care and Self-Love
We’re never enough — never balanced enough, rich enough, thin enough, healthy enough, successful enough, even happy enough… or so our culture would lead us to believe — It’s a perpetual state of lack and “less than” that motivates many of us to work harder, strive further, and dream bigger. ... Read More about Enoughness: A Journey of Self-Care and Self-Love
Balancing Act: What I Learned from Letting Go of a Lifetime of Accumulated Possessions
A purge of the possessions held onto for decades clears more than storage units; it frees the mind and heart as well — When my wife passed away in 2017, I needed to downsize from a house to an apartment. I was too overwhelmed by grief and the complications of life to think clearly about much ... Read More about Balancing Act: What I Learned from Letting Go of a Lifetime of Accumulated Possessions
Surviving Purity Culture: Moving Beyond the Cloud of Shame and Guilt Toward Liberation
A BiSexual woman’s struggle with the purity culture of her youth and her eventual healing from the ensuing confusion and shame — A dark cloud of shame hovered over me for many years. As thunder roared and rain poured down, I imagined God was angry with me. He threw things in Heaven and cried ... Read More about Surviving Purity Culture: Moving Beyond the Cloud of Shame and Guilt Toward Liberation
The Soul and Addiction
Is the existence of the soul a myth or a truth? How can we expand our relationship to our soul to overcome struggles and create a more fulfilling life? — [A special excerpt adapted from We Are All Addicts, by Carder Stout] There has been plenty of talk of the soul in recent years—and not ... Read More about The Soul and Addiction
Beyond Medicine: A Physician’s Revolutionary Prescription for Absolute Health
From a psychiatric ward, misdiagnosed and over-medicated, to practicing a new kind of medicine: Absolute Health — The Fall It’s the one story that I never wanted to tell. I was scared to, because I felt a lot of shame around it all. And from time to time, I still do. When I was beginning to ... Read More about Beyond Medicine: A Physician’s Revolutionary Prescription for Absolute Health
What’s Joy Got to Do with It? A Q&A on Manifesting and Wealth with Patrice Washington
Intuitive coach Patrice Washington shares her refreshing views on the interconnected relationships of wealth, joy and gratitude. — Every now and then, we come across a fresh voice — a new take on a familiar theme — and it has the power to shift our entire paradigm. Such was my response when I ... Read More about What’s Joy Got to Do with It? A Q&A on Manifesting and Wealth with Patrice Washington
From Clutter to Clarity
When you look at the clutter in your home, does it feel like you need an excavator to find the calm beneath the chaos? Do you try again and again to implement sustainable organizational systems without any success? Does the reason for your clutter always seem to come down to too little time or not ... Read More about From Clutter to Clarity
The Mental and Emotional Causes of COVID-19
If you want to understand the impact of the coronavirus on your life, start by looking within to release any feelings of helplessness and hopelessness — There seems to be no end to news of horrific suffering around the world as the corona pandemic hits us hard. Our nervous and immune systems ... Read More about The Mental and Emotional Causes of COVID-19
Breaking Free From The Debt Cycle
A refreshing perspective from a seasoned ‘money guy’ who shares sound financial strategies for debt relief and vibrant living. — Have you ever felt absolutely overwhelmed by the burden of debt? You are not alone. Debt is a pervasively significant stressor with household debt in ... Read More about Breaking Free From The Debt Cycle