Making Friends With Patience
Today I offer a quick note about slowness. (Gosh, I love punny language.) In my yoga classes, you can often find me using an example of being in molasses, suggesting that we move with that slow deliberateness that allows balance and awareness to keep up with action. Slow is good. Yet, what…
Enough
I went radio silent last week. No newsletter, no blog post, no social media. I had been so bombarded with the entire internet screaming about black Friday, Cyber Monday and the nonstop election drama, I just couldn’t stomach being there. Or adding even one more thing into the mix. (Even the anti-consumerism folks wanted…
Polite Conversation
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, which happens to be my favorite holiday. My best friend and I have been excitedly planning the menu for weeks. I always enjoy a surprise, non-traditional dish, but I’m not disclosing until dinner. (The suspense is killing you, I know.) Thankfully, I’ll be in a completely conflict-free zone. The only possibility…
Quitting and Beginning
I was about to quit. Perhaps you know, earlier this year I fell into a period of darkness. It was a crisis of faith that pushed me to question not only my chosen calling, but also the entire set of beliefs around which I formed the life I currently live. The rushing stream…
The Tyranny of MINE
What I teach has been around for a really long time. Like, thousands of years. Sure, I deliver it from my sassy, irreverent voice that loves big words, poetry and metaphors, but the reality is that very little (none?) of it is MINE. For a girl who gets whole body tingles from creating new…
Shattering Limits
Dearest One, I wrote a book in 12 days. Not a skimpy, pamphlet-like self-help book, but a start-to-finish novel of 288 pages (for the writing inclined – 62,000 words) with a spine-tingling connection to the characters in my previous novel. The story came to me in a series of dreams. Out of nowhere. During a…
A Bouncy Life
Dearest One, In a recent interview, I spoke about resilience being akin to walking through life on a trampoline world, as opposed to each step sinking us deeper into quicksand. I started thinking (while bouncing on my mini trampoline) about bounciness and joy. Why is it that when we move through our lives feeling…
Everything’s Fine. Or Is It?
Want to listen, instead of read? Here you go… Dearest One, Have you ever found yourself saying, through gritted teeth, “Everything’s fine.” Me too. Even when everything is absolutely.not.fine. Mine comes from a feeling that the person who is asking is not really asking, or that anything other than fine isn’t acceptable. As women, we…
Take Me to the Sun
Take me to the sun. Steer me from the cold shadows, dark corners, breathless bays. Take me to the sun. Where my eyes burn and my skin scorches. Where I drink in breath and life like a thirsty sailor. Take me to the sun. Where there is no need…
Alone Together
Dearest one, I came to terms with my tendency towards being solitary many, many years ago (after a brief but frenzied period of forced extroversion). I embrace this aspect of my personality in the same way I do my brown eyes, or my round bottom (which has surprisingly become super trendy. Who knew?). It is…