Body Love
Your body is the most amazing thing you will ever own. Here is evidence for this fact: Your heart beats 100,000 times per day. Your body is made of 37 trillion cells. Nerve impulses travel to and from your brain as fast as 170 miles per hour. The miles of blood vessels in your body […]
Antidote to Perfectionism
I always say that I am a recovered perfectionist, but just like any other addiction, it’s something I have to continually manage. For me it turns up as a tight body, a running commentary in my head about doing things “right”, self-condemnation when I don’t measure up to my own high standards, and fear of […]
Follow Your Bliss
Most of us know the famous quote “Follow your bliss….” coined by the great mythologist Joseph Campbell. I’ve always loved this idea but have honestly NEVER practiced it. I have a fairly practical orientation to life. I have responsibilities, a schedule, businesses to run, children to raise, appointments to keep, and an ongoing barrage of […]
Finding Loving Kindness in December
When Dickens set up his novel The Tale of Two Cities with his famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of time….”, he may have well been describing December. December. A month filled with a myriad of emotion. For some, it’s their favorite time of year, for others their least. […]
Not Enough Light: 6 Tips for Restlessness in Early Winter
Day light savings has been hard on my family. Driving my kids home from school last week around 4:30PM, when the light was already waning and evening quickly setting in, my son Jack asked from the back seat, “When is the darkest day of the year?” I was surprised by the foreboding tone of my […]
The Power of the Unconscious Mind: Don’t MISS a DAY
I first came across the iceberg as a metaphor for the mind during grad school in the 90’s. It was also around this time that the movie Titanic was released making it all the more potent as fresh in my mind was Jack and Rose watching the Titanic crash into the iceberg sending shards of […]
Surrender Is the Key in Autumn
Happy Fall Equinox! The 4 juncture points when the seasons change all carry their own unique energy. Winter is reprieve, Spring is rebirth, Summer is play, and Fall is surrender. Today marks the start of a period of letting go. I’ve always struggled with Fall, this season of death. Mid-August I begin to feel agitated […]
The Lesson of Space
I did something I’ve actually never done before (unless it came after birthing a baby). I took 6 whole weeks off. Last March I had the sense that I needed to take a chunk of time off this summer to write and create space in my life. I bounced the idea around in my […]
The Trap of Hedonistic Adaptation & Ways to Access More Regular Happiness
You win the award, get the promotion, hit the bestseller list, marry the person of your dreams, move into the house of your dreams. 18 months. This is about the max amount of time we get to feel the euphoria of something great happening in our lives, and typically it’s even less time than that. […]
Righting the Negativity Bias
I’ve taken on an extra job of taxi driver this Spring carting kids every night to soccer, flag football, cello, golf, or running club. I’ve felt irritable and a bit crazed by the extra activities and my mind has focused solely on the downsides of these choices. It helped me this week when I ran […]
