I took this beautiful picture at Tam Coc, Vietnam while biking in the countryside. The countryside I was told not...
Growing up in an abusive home creates dysfunction long after the surviving children have moved out and tried to move...
Acceptance of “the way it is” Human suffering is human. Awareness is just aware of it all, without thought. Awareness...
Part of mindfulness practice is to have a nonjudgmental acceptance of how things are, right now, in this very moment....
Two universal truths: There is no time outside of this moment, and there is nothing that exists outside of awareness....
We grow from imaginative play with the world In a mind-drifting moment during Yoga practice this morning, I flashed on...
For the last fifteen years of my life I have been a spiritual wanderer. In my early twenties I left...
Mindful Awareness What do I want to say? I have nothing to say. What is here now to say? Life...
Allies in the Moments Body, be present Taste each precious moment Fall alive and awake Body, be resilient as you...
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner...
The inheritances we carry Just like any mother, I didn’t want to make any mistakes—minor or crippling. So when it...
Despite common skepticism, we all dream. Even if we cannot remember our dreams, we all have them. In my seven years of dream interpretation and exploration, I have learnt how important it is for us to heed messages contained in our dreams. Dreams are an excellent source of inner guidance.
The term “mindfulness” can seem confusing. Isn’t the point of meditation to get out of one’s mind? To move past...
Two of the most courageous elements missing from most business environments is the combination of vulnerability and mindfulness—at all levels, practised with intention, consistently, and wholeheartedly.
We are inundated with messages of chasing and living the dream. The exhilarating life overseas, finding our purpose or the perfect partner. But this state of mind keeps us running toward an elusive finish line. Yet the dream is never quite as it seems
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? – Ian Wallace Love yourself....
BEYOND THE SURFACE: Stories to live by, or writing a new narrative
I’ve always been on a mission to ‘create from rather than be defined by’. While it’s been my mission all along, it’s taken almost forty years to see and accept it.
If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney Every moment is a fresh beginning. – T.S...
Relationship of Aging: Evolutions of the Parent/Child Relationship
Watching parents age is tough. Watching your divorced and still single parents age is heartbreaking. Not once did it ever cross my mind when I was a child what it would be like for Mom and Dad as they aged. Needing to think about it seemed such a long time away
UNCOMFORTABLE IS HEALTHY: Getting in touch with confronting emotions
We wish our lives away. From the time we’re born to the time we pass into the next world, we are in a constant state wishing away the future
WIRED TO CREATE: Unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind Scott Barry Kaufman, Carolyn Gregoire [Penguin Group USA, 286 pages]...
Excerpted from The Joy of Half a Cookie: Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight and End the Struggle with Food, in which...
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. – A. Milne Trees that are slow to...
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston S. Churchill Don’t...
