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Taking Our True Seat
For a long time I’ve held the phrase “Taking our True Seat” as a celebration of realized sovereignty and inherent inner majesty; a joyous self-claiming. To sit firmly, kindly and elegantly within oneself, allowing all subtle striving and habitual movement outwards to...
The Pleasure of Stopping~ A Simple, Daily Way to Tend to Our Mental Health
The Pleasure of Stopping ~ A Simple, Daily Way to Tend to Our Mental Heath. In this video I feel inspired to intimately share with you a way I have been tending to my own *mental health* in these wild times of personal and global uncertainty. This video is perhaps...
Righteous Self-Love is Worth Aging For!
A dear Sister asked me recently where I currently, personally stand as a single woman in my forties on the topic of welcoming relational union into my life. I thought it could be fun and useful to share my thoughts here. I absolutely love conscious partnership and...
Embracing Our Holy, Imperfect, Astounding Resilience
At first glance, my closest women friends and I appear to be confident and worldly women; women who enjoy the privilege of education and opportunity; spiritual women whose natural orientation is to love and service. One of us recently produced a brilliant documentary...
“Nobody is Watching”— Beyond the Seduction of Significance
One morning last summer, in my first moments upon waking, I heard three potent words reverberating in my awareness: “Nobody is watching.” These words struck a chord of deep resonance in my heart. I gasped. I felt such divine relief. Oh my goodness—nobody is watching!...
Post-Millenials on The Way to School
This morning as we drove the short distance to my son Ezra’s school, my daughter Arayla (14) asked, “Is it true about the rumors, Mom? The ones that say we could have World War III in 2020?” Her stark words reverberated painfully inside our car. I was quiet, noticing...
Ezra’s Tiger Medicine Dream
A couple of mornings ago I woke up in a funk of my own grumpiness. A sinus headache I’d had for a few days was proving difficult to shake off. A cold winter greyness was pouring in from the outside, and I sensed in my heart a definite hint of the blues. I was finding...
The Grit, Grime & Grace of Family Healing
One recent night before bedtime my children and I gathered in the living room for a family meeting.* My daughter Arayla, who is fourteen, had called the meeting, informing us that she had some “grievances” she needed to clear with her younger brother, Ezra....
Profundity of Presence
This moment. This very moment that our whole lives led up to. Oh my, such an amazing realization every single time! I’m writing this and you’re reading this in THIS moment. I confess I notice a little self-consciousness that accompanies this desire to speak to the...
A Dharma Bell for Self-Compassion
What if every single time we are triggered, and every mistake we make is an invitation for self-compassion; an invitation to be merciful with ourselves? What if the very presence of reactivity—either inside of us, or coming at us—can be a dharma bell for...