Reflect & Redirect — From Doing to Undoing
Each January, in order to take stock of how I am choosing to live my life, I take time to reflect on the past and present, and potentially redirect myself for the future. At this time last year, I sensed…
Integration — Complementary Skills for Meaningful Change
This blog is one of a three-part series on the health impacts of integration (wholeness) in our self-esteem, relationships and ability to enact meaningful change in our lives. Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage…
Integration — Complementary Skills for Healthy Self-Esteem
This blog is one of a three-part series on the health impacts of integration (wholeness) in our self-esteem, relationships and ability to enact meaningful change in our lives. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need…
Integration — Complementary Skills for Meaningful Relationships
This blog is one of a three-part series on the health impacts of integration (wholeness) in our self-esteem, relationships and ability to enact meaningful change in our lives. To know oneself is to know life. The ancient Greek and Egyptian…
Inside-Out Change – Our True Contribution to Life
Adults or kids alike, many of us enjoy dressing up on Hallowe’en in our superhero or super funny costumes. Dress-up is a wonder-filled way to activate the imagination by pretending we are someone or something else. Not only do we…
Whole Being Change — Body, Breath, Brain
In her latest book, Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression, psychologist Bo Forbes emphasizes the following five healing practices for creating lasting change and health: Balance the nervous system. Our nervous system filters all…
Choose Confidence Over Certainty
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history — a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately…
The Aquarian Conspiracy — Alive and Well Today
As the world witnesses the approaching election of a new American president, many voice the same query — “How did we get to a place where someone like Donald Trump could become the leader of the ‘New World’?” Apparently, just…
Gambling Addiction & Suicide Prevention — 3 Helpful Tips
Last week, my blog focused on distraction as the path of addiction. This week I am continuing in that vein with guest blogger, Chloe Pearson, who has some tips for those of us with a loved one addicted to gambling.…
Distraction vs Direction — The Path of Addiction
When we forfeit our happiness for habitual psychological or physiological dependence, we are choosing a path of distraction rather than directing ourselves on a course of healing and transformation.
Nothing or No One Remains the Same
Last January I ushered in the New Year with a strong sense of impending change. Since then, I witnessed one change upon another showing up in my daily life. Either I or those around me were experiencing a shifting inner…
Awareness & Consciousness Arise from Nothingness
I return refreshed from a month of gardening followed by a week-long yoga intensive. Each summer at this time, I treat myself to these occasions of being purposefully led through a transformational experience. Always my intention is the same — to awaken to my unconscious habits and to continue the work of liberating these deeply held patterns from my body.
Fortunately, the physical body wisely shows us, through sensation, where to focus attention in order to heighten awareness and raise consciousness.