Transformational Alchemy for the Highly Sensitive Person
Sep 29Beginner's Mind means I'm much more interested in a person who's not afraid to say, "I don't know" than those who "know" they have every facet of life all figured out. My truth is, some questions have multiple answers. And some questions have no Keep Reading
Mar 29If there is one thing I can always count on in my life, it's that every Jan/Feb/March I will, like the very best of bears, go into a deep dark hibernation that not even the memory of the ripest, juiciest summer raspberries can coax me out of. So Keep Reading
Jan 05I just watched Awake: The Life of Yogananda. It was an excellent documentary about the life of Paramhansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi guru who is credited with introducing meditation and Kriya yoga to western society. The man's gaze was thought to Keep Reading
Oct 26Fear of (fill in the blank) can feel like the biggest, scariest monster pursuing us, sometimes through multiple lifetimes. Never relenting, we spend 90% of our energy avoiding whatever that monster is for us, attempting to run faster, blend in so it Keep Reading
Jun 08It's like we took a wrong turn somewhere and landed smack in the middle of Heaven, yet the How to Flourish title of this blog post probably won't come as expected. Yes, we meant to be here, my husband and I , at Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Keep Reading
Jul 06The art of surrender. Awhile ago my husband and I took an incredible all-day river rafting trip through the Rio Grande Gorge in Taos, New Mexico. It was so incredible, I'll never forget it. Six hours of beautiful seclusion within the towering arms Keep Reading
Nov 29Putting it all out there. Periodically I am called to lay it on the line, divulge the freaky (magical) contents of my closets. It feels cathartic and it's my way of calibrating where I'm holding myself back in my life. Sometimes if feels as though I Keep Reading
Nov 04A word about productivity. A few 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 Keep Reading
Jun 27Animal Messengers. A few years ago, when we lived on the remote and wild frontier of eastern New Mexico, Aaron and I had a day off so we hopped in the car and drove, not really having a solid destination. We decided to drive to the tiny town of Keep Reading
May 22The (sometimes) Myth of Scientific Objectivity. What if all scientific objectivity was filtered through the Buddhist concept of Beginner's Mind? Beginner's Mind is about opening to all possibilities instead of attaching to deeply entrenched beliefs Keep Reading