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Rituals & Reflections

Rituals & Reflections

The transition from 2016 to 2017 is feeling especially poignant to me, and I headed out on the land for a "vision walk" today.  It is a ritual I like to do at the New Year to consciously acknowledge the opportunity for creative renewal and healing in the midst of the...

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Caring for You as You Care for the World

I'm feeling deeply for all of us right now in our human family in the wake of the US elections. This video is an unscripted personal sharing, acknowledging the heightened stress, trauma, heartbreak and fear so many of us are experiencing...

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When Life Sends You Spinning

When Life Sends You Spinning

Lately I have been spinning. I have had vertigo, a very disorienting, uncomfortable experience to say the least. Yet there has been something oddly affirming in navigating this illness because it has been such a clear, loud physical reflection for what is unfolding in...

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Follow Your Resistance

Follow Your Resistance

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance…. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a...

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The Expectation Trap

The Expectation Trap

One of the traps that I see most of us fall into on our health journeys is getting stuck with unhelpful ideas like, “I need to stick to ________ in order to be healthy,” or “If only I _______, then I’d be healthy.” This orientation can create a lot of rigidity,...

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Rest and Resilience

Rest and Resilience

The other day when I was feeling exhausted and very much needing solace and rest, the wise words of one of my favorite poet’s, David Whyte, popped up on my computer screen. He says… “Rest is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be. Rest is...

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Don’t Postpone Your “Yes!”

Don’t Postpone Your “Yes!”

I’ve met many, many people who realize only when they reach their final years that they have spent a lifetime doing what they thought they “should” rather than what they truly loved and felt called to do. In fact, it’s one of the most common deathbed regrets. Bronnie...

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Celebrating Each Step

Celebrating Each Step

For many of us, health and self-care can become a kind of chore, filled with fixed ideas, rigid assumptions, and many, many “shoulds”. Do what the doctor says, take these pills, avoid these foods, etc, etc, etc. In my view, health doesn’t have to be this way.Instead,...

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Pruning Your Life

Pruning Your Life

In my work, I spend a lot of time talking about the importance of discovering and aligning with your “yes!”. This deeply positive position in relationship to your life allows you to open to what brings you deeply alive, unleashing your vitality and the potential to...

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