admin | November 26, 2012
We are in constant dialogue inside. Unless you’re in pure silent meditation, that brain of yours is busy. Thinking about your to-do list, contemplating decisions, assessing life and others. It’s too easy to look at others and respond with some judgment, criticism, or comparison. Worse yet, contempt. In seeing others, do you decide you are [...]
admin | November 19, 2012
We’ve all done it. Smiled through gritted teeth. Said “yes” when we wanted to say “no.” Held back our feelings around others, only to cry once alone. We put on a mask, trying to appear to be a certain way. When, on the inside, something different is going on. Lucy wants to be seen as [...]
admin | November 12, 2012
They say that how you breathe doing yoga is how you breathe in life. For me, I often catch myself holding my breath as I move from one posture to the next. In everyday life, I find I hold my breath. If I feel an emotional reaction well up inside of me, my knee-jerk reaction [...]
admin | November 5, 2012
There’s an episode of Spongebob Squarepants where Spongebob and Patrick have a superhero belt and they accidentally shrink everything. Looking for a solution, Patrick suggests that they set the belt to “wumbo.” This cracks my son up, every time. No matter what mood he’s in, or what the topic of conversation is, if someone says the [...]
admin | October 29, 2012
Over 14 years ago, when pregnant with my first child, I hit the realization that I was going to have to actually give birth. Yikes. I’d heard too many horror stories. Knowing there was no turning back, I had to find a way to do it. So I stepped back and looked at all of [...]
admin | October 22, 2012
So you get this great idea or you have a plan for your life, but then you don’t actually do anything to make it happen. There you are, in the same place you were. You still want something better, something different, yet you stay in the same place. You’re not alone, look at these examples. [...]
admin | October 15, 2012
People often experience chaos around them. It can be a life change, drama in relationships, or challenges. It’s all too easy to react to chaos with stress, anxiety, and feeling upset. There is also often a behavioral reaction that adds to the chaos, making everything worse, like in these examples. Suzanne gets upset when her [...]
admin | October 8, 2012
We’ve all heard the quote, “The only constant is change.” It seems to have come originally from Greek philosopher, Heraclitus. Others have used it along the way, such as François de la Rochefoucauld and Isaac Asimov. But no matter what details they have added to the original concept, the core remains the same. Things change. For [...]
admin | October 1, 2012
I had the honor of spending the day with 14 other wonderful women. Some of them I’d met before, but most of them were strangers. We sang together. We laughed together. We cried together. We loved together. As we created a safe place for each other, we shared our dreams, our fears, and our caring. [...]
admin | September 24, 2012
Sometimes the things you want come so easily. That’s always awesome. Other times, it’s not so smooth. There are challenges, setbacks, struggles, frustrations. In that moment when it gets to you and you just want to quit trying, you face your moment of truth. How badly do you want it? Years ago I traveled to [...]
