Sometimes things are just hard. Uncertainty can be hard, I wrote about that last time. But sometimes certainty can, too. Like when my client, I’ll call her Kayla, learned that her 5 year-old daughter will be in
Living with uncertainty can mean the constant energetic drain of worry, but there is another way of being with the truth of What Is, with greater freedom
A few years ago, I offered to coach people to find ways to have more conscious, meaningful holidays. Through that experience I got to see, close up and in a multiplicity of ways how, even with the best intentions, those
When my children were babies, I remember watching their feelings take over their bodies. Delight, bliss, exhaustion, fury would just wash over my child. Sometimes I felt a little envious of how flowing and free the process seemed. Babies do
There are so many large and small decisions we make every day without being aware of them as choices. Without measuring their cost and benefit. That’s no way to feel any sense of balance! We say yes to things because
You hear people talking about meditation all the time. Maybe your doctor told you to try it. And you want to want to meditate. But you don’t. And when you do try it, it’s like when someone tells you not
You know what it’s like when things are hard, that suddenly all the self-judgmental voices pop up and start sharing their opinions. Then it feels like we have no choices but to do what they say. My friend Sasha was
Everything is energy. That means everything, also our emotions. Our emotions are great sign posts to inform us what’s going on below the surface, and we ignore them at our peril. But once we get the information and decide what
All over the world, we are seeing difficult times. I don’t need to spread the details of bad news, but suffice it to say that the four countries I feel most closely associated with (the US, Colombia, Mexico, and Austria)
I keep reading more stories about the immigrant children torn from their families at the border and further victimized in the places they have been (and too many continue to be) kept. I recognize as a I read that this