Transformational Alchemy for the Highly Sensitive Person
Dec 31Holiday pressures... This time of year can be overwhelming for me. While my entire being craves the hibernation phase of winter, I’m jolted into overdrive with the cattle prod of expectation. I’m supposed to be spending, and giving, and traveling, Keep Reading
Dec 21The Memory. I woke up with a memory that keeps drifting through my thoughts. It comes and it goes, but it asks to be remembered. I luxuriate in the emotions of it because it still carries a charge, twenty years later. In the 1990's I was working as a Keep Reading
Dec 0710 things about myself I vow to never again hide... 1.) I'm frequently wrong. I’ve mis-judged people, mis-read people, and made a few odd turns in the road. I’ve spent a lot of time underestimating myself. But I also believe that our mistakes in Keep Reading
Nov 301.) Beginner's Mind. I saw a bumper sticker once that said, “Question what you Know”. For so many years I struggled to attain the absolute answer to everything, (the true mark of a Highly Sensitive Person with an overactive, anxiety-ridden Keep Reading
Nov 26Thinking about things differently... I was in Albertson’s recently and witnessed a striking reminder of something that is wrong with the status quo. The woman in front of me was placing her items on the conveyor belt-- a two-liter bottle of Coke, a Keep Reading
Nov 19I recently took a workshop with a fabulous shamanic healer. Led by Myron Eshowsky, this workshop was made even more special because my husband joined me, which is way outside of his zone of comfort. I’m an experienced shamanic practitioner so the Keep Reading
Nov 12A too-common question (at the risk of cliche) in transpersonal coaching is, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” It's become such a common question that it's lost some of its charge. But whenever I do actually ask a version of this Keep Reading
Nov 09I’m doing a lot of writing these days. I’m working on a book about the spiritual emergency I had three years ago in the form of a spontaneous shamanic initiation, and I'm outlining a novel about the interconnection of our waking reality and our dream Keep Reading
Nov 05A common thread to any business owner is hearing the whispers (or the shouts) of self-doubt. We’ve all been there. Who hasn’t wondered if all this work was going to pay off some day? The nagging nature of our monkey mind often delivers us mixed Keep Reading
Nov 02The restorative effects of beauty are far-reaching. Beauty in any form is regenerative, healing, and fortifying. I was reminded of that this morning when my husband and I took our three dogs for a walk at 5:30 am. In that not-quite-awake stupor, we Keep Reading