I have been gardening off and on for the past fifteen years because the process is extraordinary. Plant a seed (or a plant), get my hands immersed in soil and water, watch it grow and experience delicious produce. Tomatoes are always a key component to gardening decadence because I love fresh tomatoes, basil and salt; ...
Lately I notice I am dancing with parts of myself I don’t particularly like and impulsively keep at a distance. I find those parts of myself I might label judgmental, self-righteous, or just plain angry are not things I want to embrace, but rather prefer pushing into the closet and padlocking the door. What I ...
In the years past, there has been a lot of focus on how to manifest the life of your dreams varying from the movie “The Secret,” to the Abraham-Hicks books such as, “Ask and it is Given.” Part of the focus has been on visualizing, evoking feelings and thinking your way into what you want. ...
Life can be a series of challenges and the uncertainty associated with them can feel incredibly stressful. How do we cope with the unknown and not feel fearful? I suppose one way is to keep coming back to a place of choice, and we may not have control of a lot of things, but we ...
All of us are constantly bombarded with input, visual information, sounds, and human interaction. Our minds, bodies, and emotions are complicated systems and so much of our experiences are not measurable through our senses. For instance you may have a challenging moment with someone that haunts you for weeks, or depression that doesn’t have a ...
I often think that focusing on things that bother me become habitual patterns that aren’t in my highest interest. I notice how easy it is to get caught in the hamster mill of critical spinning and how challenging it is to stop the cycle. It is definitely important to own and express my feelings but ...
Each of us is blessed with the enormous gift of intellect. And most of us have experienced this talent of thinking as an occasional curse. When we have various experiences, our minds create categories; this is good, this is bad, this doesn’t work, I am wrong, he is wrong, and so forth. It is easy ...
The New Year always brings up all kinds impulses of reordering and reflection. Most of us contemplate the New Year, in what we desire to accomplish, the changes we want to make, and in general, how to steer our lives. The concept of resolutions, which most of us know in one form or another, often ...