When my children were little, sometimes they hurt themselves in the course of their play. It usually was nothing very urgent or grave, but almost always, they came to show me their little wounds. Sometimes they needed water to clean
When Things Are Hard, With No Way Forward
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
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
When Feelings (Big, Scary Feelings) Take Over
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
Self-Care in Difficult Times
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)
How to Respond to Distressing News and Reduce Trauma
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
Shine Your Heart Light: Charge and Radiate your Energy
It’s the darkest season of the year, and a season full of activity. I think of it as a season of joy and excitement, but also of challenges and drains. For many of my clients over the years, this is
Sometimes the Answers Don’t Show Up
In spite of so many years of practicing and teaching that we have everything we need, that Inner Wisdom provides all the answers we seek, I still sometimes find myself confronted with the echoing silence of no answers. And that
When the Outcomes are Out of My Hands
The past months were busy and overly full with the regular already heavy schedule for my family, as well as additional activities, responsibilities and emotional work around 8th grade graduation from a close knit school community, and preparations for my
Spacious Inside
It’s the new year, so I cleared the energy in my office, lit my candle and my incense, played Deva Premal softly, and asked my Wisdom what the message is that I am to receive, and therefore to deliver, in