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Two months ago I was sitting at my computer and *pop*, suddenly I was staring at a big black circle in my field of vision accompanied by trippy flashes of neon lights and a fun-house case of vertigo I couldn’t shake. What the hell…? I thought, and Keep Reading

I read a quote yesterday from Gandhi. It struck me as particularly powerful in that moment because I was thinking about life and how often we get stuck in patterns that aren't working for us, and yet despite the fact that these patterns may actually Keep Reading

I recently signed a book deal and am busy writing away, bringing this little life into creation. It’ll be published in the next year, whenever it decides to be finished. Books take on a life of their own, sentient beings, and like Alice down the Keep Reading

Self-love is a concept that not enough of us embody. The concept of saving yourself before you can save anyone else makes a large number of people visibly cringe, the guilt painfully palpable. In fact, this used to be an enormous block for me. I had Keep Reading

This weekend my husband and I along with two best friends took a hike to a place so beautiful it seems not of this world. First of all, living in New Mexico any forest that includes a copious amount of water is pretty darn magical. The Rio en Medio Keep Reading

I hear a lot of people say, while shaking their heads in mild defeat, “I just don’t know what the answer is.” They shrug and leave it at that for now, shelving it so they don’t have to delve into that place of discomfort. They’re not happy, but Keep Reading

For twenty years I worked in veterinary medicine. I was a registered veterinary technician, but spent the last ten years in management roles. Across the span of two decades I was employed by four hospitals including two general practices, one Keep Reading

There's a way of being called Beginner's Mind. It's about opening to all possibilities without attaching to deeply entrenched "knowings" which have the tendency to get us all into a lot of trouble.  It's the "seeing through the eyes of a child" Keep Reading

I absolutely love the field of Positive Psychology because they’re always throwing themselves into awesome research along the lines of “what’s more powerful, Hope or Gratitude?” I mean, these people really know how to dig in. I just read an article Keep Reading