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
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
The One Roadmap to Conscious Choices That Is Always With You
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
Where Did That Time Go?
I have been meditating on time these days. If you have been following Soul to Soul, you may already know that time is one of my teachers about lack and abundance and alignment. And if you are new here, welcome,