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If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. Here’s two ways to get there (in addition to last week’s lesson about the unknown). 1) Give Up the Blame Game. The energy that you give to the things you’re blaming is the energy thatRead more

If you want to get to where you want to go you have to stop protecting yourself from the unknown. It’s scary, I know. But that’s just the physics of life itself. It’s so constructed that it asks us to embrace that which we can’t understand fully unless we go into the place that revealsRead more

  You can see Part 1 of this lesson HERE. 5. Look at how much you’ve grown and accomplished this year. I know it’s hard to believe at times because we engage in this insanely soul-crushing illusion of compare-and- despair-ism that renders us always ineffectual and less than. It might be one of the mostRead more

As 2016 draws to a close (eeeek!) it might be good to just do a review of not only the things that you’ve accomplished (and probably didn’t even realize or give yourself credit for!) this year, but also some things to think about as we set intentions for the New Year. Ultimately, the more weRead more

“I’m sick of it.” We’ve all said it. And many of us end up allowing that to become our mantra at some point in our lives when we feel stuck and powerless to change. It becomes the battle cry during rough periods in our career. Or while we’re in a rocky relationship. Or when weRead more

  Oh Thanksgiving. What a special time of year. So much to be grateful for and a beautiful holiday to reconnect with family. Utterly American. And it may be even more dynamic this year. Dynamic = tempestuous, nerve-wracking, maddening, stress-inducing and just plain messy. Passing the stuffing to Aunt Edna ”“ as she vocally gushesRead more

In times like these”¦ Being in Rome as I write this and seeing the ancient ruins, I often wonder how often throughout millennia conversations have started with those exact words. A lot of people are asking, “How did we get here?” Maybe the better question to ask is, “What next?” I know when great upheavalRead more

We all want to expand. It’s our nature to do so. But in order to do that, we have to move beyond our comfort zones which are put into place so that we don’t. Because expansion = change. And change, as we all know, is scary. So we shrink back into our safety net ofRead more

  Judgment and motherhood. Two human states that don’t go great together. I can’t imagine a harder job than being a mom (whether that’s stay-at- home or working) and the constant feeling that every move you take and choice you make might f**k up the future of your child. Eeeeeek. Not easy to live withRead more

Oh, the mind. It provides so many reprieves from daily living. It allows us to travel in our imagination to far away places. Seize an inspired idea. Write beautiful poetry and compose lyrics to a song. In its brilliance, it comes up with solutions for the problems that face humanity. Vaccines and alternative energy technology; clean water resourcesRead more