Passion

Media, movies, TV, novels focus on passion as something having to do with lust and the body.  It’s an overused theme from romance novels and chick flicks.  We want it in our lives but we are also subtly influenced to believe that it doesn’t really exist.  That’s why they write those novels, right?  It’s all…

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The Warped Mirror

In the past few years medicine and psychology have begun to recognize the fact that some people see themselves as if they are looking into a fun house mirror.  Most of us in Western society have been taught to be critical about our physicality and over the past 50 years or so to seek an…

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Recurring Issues

I once had a friend who was bothered by a recurring dream.  The issue was pretty clear and they had been told by several people what it seemed to mean and everyone was in agreement.  And this person would nod and go “ahhhh” as if it made perfect sense, then go ahead and just keep…

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Listen to your Body’s Wisdom

5 day work weeks with two days to rest. Play dates and school functions and work functions and friends. Yard work and housework and home repairs and honey do’s. Our lives are bounded by responsibilities and expectations.  What used to be fun has become just another tick mark on a long to-do list that never…

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We hold ourselves back

I know from experience what it is like to be held back because you want something, but you and others have told yourself that it isn’t possible. I can list chapter and verse on all the obstacles, the limitations, the time constraints, the probabilities of failure and error. It will just never happy so be…

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Sacred Spaces

Sacred Space is any place where people go to reconnect and interact with the Divine, however they define Divinity.  This can be a physical interaction such as Yoga or Tai Chi or Qi Gong which brings the body into harmony with the mind and emotions and Spirit. Or it can be meditation which brings the…

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Our deepest fear

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?  Your playing small does not serve…

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DEAR BEAUTIFUL MEN

From the website http://divineloveheart.wordpress.com/ “Dear Beautiful Men: … Love a woman – one woman beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason, beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety and all your superficial concepts of freedom. We have given ourselves so many choices we have forgotten that true liberation comes from standing in the middle…

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Was it me or was it you?

One of the hardest things, and one of the questions that I get asked quite often is, “Could it have been different?”  So many people come to me wanting to know if their lives would have been different if they had not married this one person, if they had acted a different way in their…

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