The Greatest Gift: What you can give yourself and others for a Powerful Holiday season

Happy belated  Halloween!  It seems that Halloween, for many, acts as the official holiday season kickoff, thus causing varying emotions and reactions--from stress, to excitement, to melancholy.  With all our emotions, combined with all the emotions everyone else has, there is often palpable tension in the air.  How fun is that? Not.

This sets us up for feeling disconnected from our true selves, our innat...

Falling Out of Overwhelm: Part 2

Here are a few more tips for moving out of overwhelm and INTO enjoying your life more fully...

Simple Shifts
You do not have to change everything in your life to find peace. Are there one or two obligations that you can trim back on? Are you willing to get up 10 minutes early and sit looking out the window or listen to music with your eyes closed? Are you willing to ask others for additional help or get your family more involved in household projects or cooking...

A New Season — Time to Spring Cleanse!

April 2001
Spring is a natural time of renewal and growth. It energizes and motivates us. A great way to support this natural movement toward growth and change is to clear out or “cleanse” various parts of our lives. This creates space for new opportunities as well as simplicity that reduces stress.

Relationships
What relationships are due for a tune-up or release? Unresolved anger, frustration, fear, sadness, etc. is damaging to us physically ...

A Fulfilling Life: A Fully Present Moment

It always seems that when I reach middle of the month I have repeated moments of shock—about how I cannot believe that the month is already half over.  There’s a sense of sadness in a way, that time is flying by, and that I want to slow things down, enjoy more, experience more great moments, and instead feel a sense of contentment when it is the 15^th—as though there’s nothing I would change.

This morning I went outside for my morning ritu...