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This practice agrees with you

As I practice periodic mindful sessions of being agreeable, I experienced an AHA about myself so huge that I had to sit down. It helped me make sense of and have greater compassion for myself, leveled-up. (Which of course is then also projected toward others.) And it’s regarding wanting to be understood, and people-pleasing. These […]

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Just laying here. Feeling beautiful.

In today’s A Course In Miracles for Badasses app by Pam Grout, I am reminded of a story I had once heard but since forgotten. And it totally turned my morning around: Robert Holden is an amazing British author and A Course In Miracles teacher. He shares that when his daughter was four, he found […]

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Welcome to the dark side. It’s on the back of the light side.

In Matt Kahn’s book Everything is Here to Help You, I read the idea that our ego is “the soul in its most dormant phase of expansion.” This opened the door for me to consider that my ego is not something to fight, overcome, or battle. It’s actually a piece of my soul in its baby […]

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The light, the dark, no difference.

    You’ve likely encountered a situation or quality that has both a “good” side and a “bad” side. An example of this might be accomplishment. Yes, we get things done. And yet, sometimes they’re done less fully just so that we can get to them being done. Further still, we can slowly become rather rigid […]

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Celebrate the Dark

Halloween. Samhain. All Soul’s Day: Creepy characters, darkness and fire, celebration of the dead. The days are short, the nights are long — and getting longer. It’s easy to be afraid of the dark, but it’s actually more spiritual than spooky. Look again.

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