When You Are Lost, Stand Still
When you feel lost, the best advice is to stop, breathe, and stay right where you are. Some of you are dealing with situations filled with unknowns: a new diagnosis, impending retirement, financial distress. You do not yet know the way forward. The pathway is obstructed or unclear, and it feels scary and shaky. Because …
The Power of Not Knowing
What if: “not knowing” is more important than knowing? What if real wisdom is being open to what we “don’t know”?
7 Spiritual Tips to Maintain Your Sanity When The News Is Challenging
7 spiritual tips for coping with the news cycle. The USA’s current crises create an emotional rollercoaster and no matter what happens with Mueller, this “thrill ride” is not ending anytime soon.
Lovingkindness Practice for Self & Others
Lovingkindness practice can be learned as a way to increase self-compassion. It also helps soften feelings of anger toward others.
Bedtime Rituals: Goodnight Moon for Grownups
The other day, I asked a group of adults what their bedtime rituals were and people responded with hesitance. Some people said they went to bed watching the news. Others replied that they used to read novels religiously before bed, but had stopped. Still others said they checked their phones one last time for messages. …
Growing Into Self Acceptance
Sometimes it takes many, many years to finally rest into who you uniquely are. This acceptance comes with the enormous relief that you don’t have to try so hard to be anything other than who you are right this minute. WHAT IF from this moment forward, your life task was to settle into your own self …
Never Again is Now
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated on this day, January 27, in 1945. Today, the world remembers that 17 million souls, including one-third of the global population of Jews, were murdered in the genocide of the Nazi regime. How is it possible that such atrocities were committed? First, the Nazis began by portraying Jews and other …
Seeking Awe Is A Spiritual Practice
Awe is a spiritual practice. Every day, intend to experience a sense of wonder in what you will encounter. It could be a baby’s laughter in the grocery line ahead of you
