A Special Valentine’s Day Edition
For those of you interested in some juicy Valentine’s Day trivia and fascinating facts of the heart.😍
Taking the Reins
Anxiety can easily run away with us if we merely react to it. The best way to halt the runaway fear before it begins, is to sink down, breathe, and take the reins.
A Lamp, a Lifeboat, a Ladder
By choosing to grow through your experiences, and by having the intention to connect with others, you will discover joy. You will live your purpose.
Into the Dark
By seeing the darkness as the companion to the light, rather than its adversary, we find more of who we really are and why we are really here. We become enlightened.
In Defense of Melancholy
Melancholy is the condition of being exquisitely sensitive. It is the experience of taking in all of life at once, without excluding the painful or uncomfortable. It’s no picnic.
Endings, Middles, & Beginnings
All loss begins a process of transition. Knowing how to navigate these transitions is key to creating a bigger, better next chapter.
Notes from the Nest
We all face multiple, major transitions throughout our lives. They can be delightful, or they can be wrenching. Sometimes, they are both. Here’s how to survive the passage.
The Path Ahead
There are many things we can’t imagine doing or surviving, but somehow, we do. The path forward is not always clear, but we can trust that we will make our way, step by step.
Back to Basics: Lessons From a Little House on the Prairie
The ethos of Little House on the Prairie may be more relevant now than ever. Here are six life lessons that may just help us all to get through.
Hell in a Handbasket: A Traveler’s Guide to Living in Uncertain Times
With everything that’s happening in the world right now, it’s easy to be overcome with fearful thoughts. What to do when it feels like there’s nothing you can do? Read on….
The Story of Your Life
We want the difficult events of our lives to make sense and have meaning, but it’s hard to see the meaning in the middle of the muddle. This is where the value of having an “objectified me” comes in.
Feeling Meh? You’re Not Alone
We have made it through what can only be described as the weirdest—if not the worst— two years in recent history. But if you’re still feeling off, here’s some help.
Fear: The Other Virus
There is a second, concerning virus that piggybacked on Covid, opportunistically coming in the door that the physical virus opened. It is the virus called Fear.
I Surrender
Surrendering is getting out of your own way. Far from giving up, true surrender is liberation: freed from a limited perspective of “it must be this!” surrender opens us to something more.
The Protector
We all have an inner Protector that keeps us safe from emotional risk. Unfortunately, it also keeps us from living the lives we desire. But there’s a way through.
The Equation
By practicing awareness and non-judgment, you create space where something new can emerge. This is the beginning of transformation.
Sacred Summer
Pain offers the difficult blessing of causing one’s world to slow to a centered simplicity, as in, “Let’s see if I can manage to lie down without crying.”
Let’s Get Real
Living authentically means being your true self. It means dropping the façade and bringing all of yourself to the game.
Seasons of the Heart
On humility and kindness, for self and others, in a season of grieving.
Pandemic Fatigue: Time for Something Else
There are some things we simply cannot change. We can’t hurry a pandemic, nor can we dictate the process. We can either fight that fact, or we can surrender to what’s next.