Across the way from where I live is a beautiful river. Many days I walk along it for inspiration or to just be with nature. A few days ago, the thought came to me, “Are we torturing ourselves by delaying the obvious?” Wow! We as humans don’t like change. Sometimes...
There can be two people standing in a room and at least three truths. Your truth, their truth, and the truth between the two of you. All three are right. It’s a beautiful and messy entanglement. The unfortunate thing in society today is, we're made to feel that if...
When you look at pictures of yourself, now and at an earlier age, what do you see? Go beyond your physical attributes and feel into the energy of the pictures. Maybe even close your eyes for a moment. What is the journey telling you? Is there something you’ve been...
A friend recently posted a letter on social media. A letter written by her younger self to her absentee parent. Asking to be acknowledged and openly expressing that she didn’t feel loved. Reading this broke my heart. So many of us carry the scars related to what we...
Every year around this time we’re made to feel inspired to set goals for what we want to create and how we want to be in the coming year. There’s a push to define what the year will look like, what we’ll look like, starting on 1/1. Yet statistics show that by...
If you could fly high above all that’s going on around you this holiday season, how would it change your perspective? There’s many highs and lows with the holidays. We get pulled one way and then another. It’s also a time when you see more of life in your interactions...
Is there someone you’ve been thinking about but haven’t reached out to? We’ve been taught to be logical, to think logically, make decisions from logic. But when we stay in our heads, it doesn’t change or shift anything. The holidays can heighten our feelings of...
We’re deep in the middle of the holiday season. You may be thinking about someone you haven’t seen or talked with in a while, wanting things to be different between the two of you. You may want to end something but are waiting for the other person to make the first...
“To be or not to be.” Those famous words spoken thousands of times by Prince Hamlet. Rather than contemplating the unfairness of life, what small miracle did you experience over the Thanksgiving holiday? It may be that you spent a blissfully peaceful day alone. You...
Resilience reminds me of beautiful flowers that grow out of the cracks in the pavement. Finding fuel and sustenance where others may find none. Growing tall and mighty, showing their brilliance to the world. There’s a certain elasticity to their being. Finding and...