May 28, 2018
How do we love ourselves? What is self-love? Is it simply an abstract idea, or is it actually possible to love this being we call home? […]
April 19, 2018
Love is . . . Love is a great fullness A gratefulness that fills us with a sweet, yummy fullness When we love When we really […]
January 10, 2018
Today is the day. This is the day I enter a new cycle of my life, the one day of a woman’s life they call menopause. […]
December 30, 2017
I’ve been single for six years. This is a big deal to me in some ways, and I’ve started to notice recently that I feel some […]
November 2, 2017
Embodiment, such a buzzword these days, what does it actually mean? I first heard this word nearly 20 years ago when my friend Jody, who was […]
October 19, 2017
Our planet is rocking and rolling, well America certainly is. Puerto Rico, Las Vegas, Tom Petty, Harvey Weinstein, Northern Californian fires. These are all experiences that […]
October 5, 2017
Relating can be difficult. We all know this. If we’ve really tried to connect deeply with someone, over time, the experience can be fraught in moments […]
October 5, 2017
What is it to simply be where one is? What does this even mean? No striving, no resisting, no attempts to change anything that is here […]
October 5, 2017
Slow down, stay with yourself, don’t believe anything too soon. All things transform if you give them time. Life experiences fill out and become richer, deeper, […]
October 5, 2017
I was talking with a friend yesterday and we touched upon the subject of one’s ability to develop a capacity for something. I mused about actually […]
October 5, 2017
What is freedom? Is it an experience? A truth? An idea? Perhaps it is all of these and more, and yet what I do know is […]
September 29, 2015
Truth resides in the heart. A formidable opponent to the mind, indeed. How do we develop an open heart that allows us to live truth in […]
October 26, 2014
We have the sense that if we shore up all things external to ourselves that we’ll be safe from harm. Thus, the exponential rise in laws […]
August 8, 2014
I was deeply saddened to learn that Phillip Seymore Hoffman had died this past February, and rather devastated as I learned the circumstances that surrounded him […]
July 30, 2014
The forging of a deep personal philosophy is a lifetime’s work. If we are lucky, we develop a resilient, spirited ability to cope with difficulty… METTLE […]