Empowerment Category

To: Me. Love, Me.

This holiday season I’m doing pretty well with keeping my sanity. That said, I still do slide toward cray-cray. But this year I’m doing better at turning the sleigh around before actually arriving at Crazy Town. Wanna know my secret, Santa? Receiving. I have been consciously shifting into receptivity, replenishment, renewal. In the moment, not […]

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When Your Groove Has Become A Rut

Here’s a story that I had been operating under a couple of years ago: Well-held values + Hard-won success = Living the dream Living the Dream = Lifelong happiness and fulfillment When the solid earth of my dream job had over time crumbled out from under my feet, I had a bit of a personal […]

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Stop “Should-ing” On Yourself

I love this time of year. From Thanksgiving through the New Year, it’s a constant sense of anticipation, hopefulness, and connection. And it can also bring self-imposed expectation, striving, and sneaky idealistic perfection. Dangit. You might recognize some of the symptoms, yourself: As long as I’m hosting dinner, I should include everyone–making it 60 instead […]

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Guiding Others Toward Joy

“You inspire people to be happy, you don’t lecture people to be happy.” –Doreen Virtue I have a loved one who is working through an issue with a friend. I was pretty proud of myself for keeping out of it, but apparently I went past my internal time limit of restraint because I finally asked […]

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Thank You, Officer

  It was the middle of the week, the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of nowhere. I was driving home happy from teaching a workshop in which the participants had been receptive and were rejuvenated. My much-anticipated local community education class was at the end of my two and a half hour drive. […]

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