We’re almost there my friends. We’re at the finish line of 2020: the craziest, weirdest, most tumultuous, contentious, painful, scary, exhausting year that most of us have ever seen.

It’s easy to become wrapped up in what is wrong and difficult in our lives, easy to lose perspective of the larger picture. But when we shift our perspective, life gets better.

One of the most difficult challenges we have as humans is facing what is, especially when life presents you with things you didn’t order and don’t want: like everything in 2020.

Loss and grief come in many forms, all of them real, all of them wrenching. My book, Grief Girl’s Guide, is here to help you with your grief.

There is a mantra I love that can help enormously with this process we call Life, a mantra that really should be a Core Principle for Living. Here it is.

By becoming present and receptive to the subtle and small, life is suddenly no longer a freeway race from birth to death; instead, it becomes a backroad exploration with multiple stops to take in the sights.

Division, anger, violence … our political landscape is truly disturbing. Here are some gentle reminders of how to avoid the “us and them” trap.

This horrid little virus has spurred limitations the likes of which most of us have never seen. But there is an upside to limitation … Read on.

We get to choose our attitude and approach to life, even in the storm. That choice is very simple: Do I choose fear, or do I choose love?

Chinese medicine calls viruses “Pernicious Evil Influences,” which sums it up pretty perfectly. They are all three of those things. But while viruses are nasty, the anxiety they generate is worse.

A simple practice to create greater happiness …

On this Valentine's Day, I thought a little education on the heart and on the origin of the holiday might be of interest. An alternative, if you will, to the sentimentality imposed by Hallmark.

“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while … and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.” 

If you’re not inherently sync with the Christmas crush, you might actually be exactly where your soul needs to be.

For those of you who might be dreading another family gathering, here are three mantras to help you keep your balance through the holidays.

Grief and gratitude go hand in hand. Knowing sorrow aligns your heart with gratitude.

A famous lyric from Gilbert and Sullivan says, “Things are seldom what they seem.” I’m going to bump that up that a notch and say that things are never what they seem. There’s always more to the story. 

I’ve been having a week filled with messages: Message after message, all on the same topic. It’s as if someone is yelling, “Can you hear me now? Can you hear me NOW??”

Passion is nothing if not the spark in your soul. It is energy. Fire. What brings you alive. And it’s never too late to find your spark. 

When we stop, the rest of Life that we normally rush through comes into focus. We notice things we overlook, things we don’t stop to appreciate — until we slow down.