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
Are Goals Really the Way to Go?
Goals and resolutions are externally focused, but setting intentions is a better way to set guidelines for the life you want in the new year.
Create a Mini-Retreat Amidst Daily Life
It’s winter in the northern hemisphere, a time of short days and long nights. If we didn’t live in an artificially lit world, we would be turning inward, inclined to slow down and reflect, quietly sipping something warm before a
Are You Forgetting This In the Holiday Season?
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 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
What Existing Possibilities Are You Not Seeing?
Sometimes we miss seeing possibilities that are right in front of us. I’d been playing Rummykub with my son, a game with tiles that requires players to build ladders of numbers or form groups by numbers. It had been a
The Simplest Tool for Balance: Making Energetically Aligned Choices
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
When We Don’t Even Know What’s Keeping Us Stuck
Have you found yourself feeling thankful for clarity about what you need to be working on? I have a dear friend, whose daughter has had trouble reading throughout elementary school, in spite of everyone’s best efforts to help her
You CAN Meditate, Specially When You Think You’re Doing It Wrong
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