For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in why we do what we do, why we behave in the ways we behave. I think we all want to be happy and to live lives with meaning and fulfillment.
This script is intended for a facilitator to guide participants in a Yoga Nidra meditation practice. Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” and is a technique used to produce states of healing and ...
Mind-blowing quotes from John Steinbeck to bring new insight on love and life. It is funny when an author, who was never really your cup of tea, becomes so dear to you by finding his way to your heart ...
We have all heard of the commonly discussed trauma responses fight or flight. Freeze is yet another reaction we experience when our brain tells us we are in danger. But fawn doesn’t get as much ...
We don’t get to choose grief. We don’t know how or when it strikes. Who or what we’ll lose. It descends upon us all at once, and it never quite leaves. Whoever has endured loss knows that we don’t ...
This is not a story about a farmer, a plot of land, or regenerative agriculture. What you are about to read is a reflection of the uninhibited power of nature and ancestral wisdom captured in a human ...
Many years ago, I was in a group of women for relationships advice. One leader in the group said, “I hate desperate people.” She was sharing this thought regarding someone she had received a message ...
I write about my human experience and specifically about life events that have brought me to the current path on which I tread. My new journey is deliberately designed to enable me to heal, reset, and ...
There are so many things wrong with that declaration and question I shouted at my wife on several sober occasions before I relapsed and returned to active alcoholism. In my defense, my reaction wasn’t ...
According to Buddhism, all our struggles stem from attachment. I chuckled the first time I heard this. How is it possible that all my problems are because of attachment? As I scrutinized my life, I ...
What to Say (Or Not to Say) to Someone Who is Grieving: There were about 150 people at my father’s memorial service. Standing in the receiving line afterward it seemed like every conversation, whether ...
Twin flames have an instant, instinctive and undeniably intense bond. As soon as they meet, they feel an overwhelming and familiar “home” sensation, as though they have known one another before. They ...