Sometimes to have what you really want, to do and be what you really want, you have to go through being uncomfortable. Want an example, here’s one of mine. I’m a middle-aged woman huffing and puffing out there, but the joy of actually doing it, of reclaiming a part of myself that has been dormant…
DetailsDo something. One of the biggest problems that people face when it comes to achieving their dreams, walking their path, or improving their lives is they do anything and everything other than actually doing something that moves them towards the goal. I’ve talked with a number of clients who are still exactly where they were…
DetailsThe New Codependency by Melody Beattie Codependency is normal behavior, plus. There are times we do too much, care too much, feel too little, or overly engage. We forget where the other person’s responsibilities begin and our responsibilities stop. Or we get busy and have so much to do that we neglect ourselves. Codependents may…
DetailsI was talking with a therapist one day when they mentioned how many clients come in like donkey’s weighted down with so much baggage from their families that they can barely lift their heads. They sit down and relate family history that happened before they were born, sometimes generations before they were born but in…
DetailsSo many times I hear reports from students and clients about their Akashic experiences, about their current personal experiences and about what they are looking for and in all of it they relate to me what the meaning of it is even though they have questions about what it all means. :/ This and this…
DetailsThere was an interesting discussion in yoga class today about faith. Most of those in the class had grown up in the US and so equate faith belief or having a belief system. However, in yoga these two things are not the same. Faith is itself and can be expressed through a variety of means. …
DetailsWhen I was in my teens and 20’s there were many things that mystified me. Rental applications where the person asking me about my background was wearing a wife beater t-shirt and hadn’t bathed in a while, what was really in Cheetos and should I care, you know, the big stuff. But also this weird…
DetailsI was talking with a friend of mine recently and trying to explain the difference between the challenges of last year with what’s ahead for this year. I’ve pointed out to my students and clients that gearing up to climb mountains, take that hill, and deal with huge burdensome challenges in 2015 is making mountains…
DetailsSo many of the people I work with, both students and clients, suffer from having difficult childhoods. This ranges anywhere from distant and non-demonstrative parents or families where the person just never fit in to literal torture. And before anyone starts that story in their head that there is some scale of hard where these…
DetailsThere are people who are avoidance magnets. Not about hard work or gnarly problems to be solved or a good challenge, they don’t have any problems with seeing what needs to be done and digging in with everyone else, they lead the charge when others are waiting around ready to follow, they are the ones…
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