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  Vulnerability leads to greater connection. Everyone probably knows that because we’ve all had vulnerable moments in life with friends or family or lovers that open us to new levels of honesty or communication or intimacy. But what if we took the idea of vulnerability out into the world in a bigger way to includeRead more

  Once again, the science is in. Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard who has been doing research since the late ’70’s – has conclusively proven that becoming mindful can change your life. There are measurable benefits to one’s creativity, competence, psychological well-being and physical health. All the places where we can getRead more

  Love. What else is there? Why are we here? Why do we feel compelled to tell stories and reflect back to humanity what it means to be human? Why do we sit in dark theaters with strangers and watch performances that are specific and individual, yet universal at the same time? Well if it’sRead more

I’m a good kisser. Let’s just start with that. Yet I recently made out with this guy who told me that I wasn’t kissing “correctly”. Or maybe he didn’t say it quite like that, but by stopping me in the middle of a kiss and instructing me as to where and how I should proceed,Read more

    How we define our reality is how we’re going to experience our reality. Einstein said, “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This isRead more

I’m the king of over-share. I didn’t even know what that word meant a couple months ago, because I realized that ever since I was a kid, I’d express things that most people would think were “private.” But it just felt normal for me to express my truth. And I think if you watch children,Read more

  I had a student I was teaching in Australia recently who had a watershed moment in his acting. And it did create a watershed. Being vulnerable might do that to you. He realized that he’s been “acting” – meaning self-generating – rather than simply being – and allowing himself to be affected in theRead more

  Nobody talks about this because I think we often feel we’re supposed to have the same feelings for something that we had when we first stumbled upon it. When something’s brand new it’s intoxicating and captivating and joy-filled. It’s almost like innocence because the discovery of things within that thing seem never-ending. A hobby.Read more

We’re so obsessed with the climax in our culture that we forget that it’s all about the foreplay. So we live for the climax – only to discover two things. 1). Sometimes the climax just isn’t that good. Womp. Womp. 2). It’s never the answer. Part of what being here and having this physical experienceRead more

  You’re good enough. Just as you are right now at this moment. Here now. You’re good enough as you are without having to change anything. You’re good enough for love. To have an amazing career. To have happiness and full self-expression. To experience the most amazing relationship. You’re good enough in the body thatRead more