December 2021

Have you ever experienced a breakthrough while also feeling confusion and overwhelming emotion? I left the house yesterday with shorts on. Yep, that’s what started the tumbleweed of emotion rolling. I looked down at my legs. My athletic calves had become pasty due to the long winter and they had become covered in long curly […]

It is remarkable how capably the heart shifts from fear to love. Doubt rears up to paralyze me, then the most amazing story unfolds to help bring me back into wonder and amazement at the power I have when I tap into the expansiveness that is available to me.   My dog and I were

Have you ever experienced a breakthrough while also feeling confusion and overwhelming emotion? I left the house yesterday with shorts on. Yep, that’s what started the tumbleweed of emotion rolling. I looked down at my legs. My athletic calves had become pasty due to the long winter and they had become covered in long curly

I recently had a healing conversation with my mother. In that conversation, I learned that when I share myself vulnerably, without attachment to approval, I create connection and opportunity for others to share from their heart. I learned that when I breathe into the moment, when I stay aware of my prior wounds and limiting

I went out to my garden today and was saddened to see that my peonies were on their last days of life. The blooms had toppled over during a recent thunderstorm and their heads were smothering the plants below them. I knew it was time to move their aging, fluffy heads to the compost bin,

I lay in my bed listening. I heard the small still voice inside me speaking guidance. It said that I can reconnect with my sacred freedom. My inner voice told me that everything was going to be okay, that it is okay to trust myself, and that growth is welcomed.   In the past, I

The great poet Rumi wrote, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Could you meet yourself in that field of love and acceptance? What if we stopped judging ourselves when we misstep? I’d like to live in a field of self love and self acceptance, yet I

I carry stones. They are crystalized beliefs buried deep inside me. The rocks weigh me down and keep my vibration low. They represent limiting beliefs and judgmental thoughts about myself and others. I make missteps daily as I react to the world from the wounded place harboring these stones.   As we grow up, we

I’m seeing a lot of myself lately. I see my undesirable attributes reflected in the behaviors and attitudes of the people around me. I am learning that what I find upsetting in others is often the universe showing me an unresolved issue within myself.   After a long break due to COVID-19, I am now

The great poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi wrote, “the wound is where the light enters you.”   It’s the falling down, and getting up again, that teaches children how to walk. The surfaces a child encounters while learning to walk and the response of his elders to falling down will factor in to determine how