Here I am, at midlife. My life doesn’t look or feel anything like I imagined it would. Instead of a life focused on my ego/personality’s desires (career, travel, money, etc.), I am living a deeply personal journey of the soul. For example, rather than being a high-level college administrator earning a healthy salary with benefits …
My life is full with the work of both serving clients and running a business. As the sole provider of services, I teach, coach, facilitate women’s circles, and do intuitive readings and energy healing. As the owner of a business, I also do, or at least coordinate, the marketing, bookkeeping, scheduling, visioning, workshop development, website …
A few months ago I wrote a blog entitled Putting Yourself at the Center which talked about the spiritual underpinnings of making choices in our daily lives that include our needs as well as the needs of others. I have been living and teaching these tenets for years, yet the tendency to put other people at …
I get suspicious of couples who say they never have conflict; that everything is always hunky dory. The truth as I know it? Couples have conflicts. More specifically, when the level of commitment increases in any relationship (intimate partnerships, friendships, even promotions at work), so does the level of conflict. It’s often temporary, but it’s …
I woke up this morning humming part of The Garden Song by David Mallett – the closing song at Betsy’s memorial service. The song describes how by taking small steps, mulching, weeding, etc., we can make our gardens fertile ground. Betsy, my mother-in-law, was deeply connected to nature. An avid gardener and bird-watcher, she tended …
During the last two weeks, I’ve been listening repeatedly to an interview with Joanna Macy that Krista Tippett recorded for her radio show Being. The topic, A Wild Love for the World, has me captivated. I am soothed by the sound of Joanna’s voice – the wisdom in and beyond her words that emanates from her being, the lightheartedness …
