Writing, living, and healing in the PNW
Growth is a strange beast, isn’t it? You think you’re all love and light, and then you wanna cut someone. You think you’re free of the anger and melodrama from your past and then this dark demon shakes up your insides. On my journey into clarity, balance, and alignment with the source of my energy,…
There I was, on deadline, Sunday afternoon, with content to send to a client by 6 o’clock. “Hi! I’m behind schedule right now. I’ll have this to you by 7.” I sent my client. “No problem. I’ll be ready at 7.” He responded. Shit shit shit. I’m starting to stress. I’m worried. What if this…
“Happiness is a choice.” I say to myself and anyone else who will listen. “Believe you can have it, and you can have it.” I repeat on a regular basis. “The most important relationship you can have is with yourself.” I remind myself and the women in my women’s circle. “Don’t be afraid to break….
“Mama will you play with me?” My six year old daughter has been asking me this question for the last three years, since I stopped “playing” with her toward the end of her toddlerhood. I taught her to play, I encouraged her imagination, I provided her with all the necessary resources, and then I let…
I was once again recently asked why I don’t live in Venezuela or some other socialist country. This question was posed by someone who admires me, who likes me, who enjoys my company. But yes, he laughingly said he was surprised I don’t live in a country that is more overtly liberal. He is surprised…
When I first got into the world of self help, not even a year ago, I had no idea what I was stepping into. My journey has been somewhat serendipitous as I have long been a believer in the power of the mind, so of course I started there. And from there my path naturally…
The spiritual journey I am on is very important to me. I do my greatest work not from a place of anger, from pain, from sadness, or from hate, but from a place of love. I understand that people across the world are not in a place to choose love. I do not judge those…
“Do we have a ‘right’ to be happy?” I recently saw this question pop up on Linked In. It is attached to a post about “self help experts” and “positive thinking speakers” and their perpetuation of this entitlement myth called “happiness.” Wait. What? We’re actually fighting over whether people have a right to be happy?…
As summer is fast approaching, I am working with students day and night who are stressed out about finals, stressed out about grades, stressed out about performance, competition, comparison, and acceptance. What they should be stressed out about is this: nothing. Nothing is worth taking away kids’ precious sleep, their sanity, their hopes, their lighthearted…
I do not, nor have I ever, buried my anger. I wear my heart on my sleeve and my fire in my eyes. My husband will say to me, “I thought you would be upset about that.” I look him in the eye. “Honey.” I say. “If I was upset, you would know it.” Twelve…