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
The Art of Savoring
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
The First Step is to Let Go.
Somebody asked me recently to share one tool for maintaining equilibrium during particularly stressful times. She told me that earlier in the day she had thrown her hands in the air, succumbing to a mini melt-down, certain she'd never make it through Keep Reading
If Not Now, When?
I had this dream a few years ago, one of those Big Dreams that tends to change a person. It was an important teaching for me at the time and for some reason I thought of it today. The dream went like this... In a woodland clearing was an Keep Reading
The Spirit of Sadness
I love Transpersonal Psychology, a field which captured my heart years ago. Transpersonal psychology validated my existence whereas the more typical forms of Western psychology defined me as broken. The focus of my academic study was, in fact, how Keep Reading
Save the Earth by Putting Your Heart First.
The purpose of coaching is to guide a person to reach their dreams, no matter how big or small. As a coach, I do this by listening to the dreams of my clients, mirroring patterns of destructive linguistics so those patterns can shift immediately (we Keep Reading
Anxiety As Our Ally
A transformative dream... I once had a dream that changed my life. I never saw myself or my perceptions of the world the same, after it. It seemed to be a message from my own spirit; a lesson on the dishonesty and inaccuracies of fear. It started as Keep Reading
Intrinsic Motivation
In the science of human behavior, reward systems are often explored. There have been countless studies done on the effects of extrinsic (external) vs. intrinsic (internal) motivation. It's widely understood that intrinsic motivation, (doing something Keep Reading
6 Traits of Positive Psychology
Seeing things differently. Positive Psychology sees things a little bit differently. Its foundation lies in the study of finding those aspects of self which, when fostered, lead to increased feelings of well being and inner peace. For example, Keep Reading
Hidden Room Dreams
I've always had a cherished relationship with my dreams. I've never passed dreams off as the meaningless result of something I ate before I went to bed, or some remnant of a movie watched recently. My dreams to me are pathways into my own soul. To Keep Reading