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How to Move From Lack to Abundance

It’s true, we ALL suffer from feeling like there’s something missing, or we aren’t good enough, or that we’re lacking in some way…

Certainly, the human part of us can fall into this kind of thinking. Especially when we feel anxious or fearful.

I think it’s helpful to recognize that we encounter feelings of lack or not enough-ness when we either feel separate from the one-ness and disconnected from the universe, OR we identify and believe we are our self image / personality which comes with, according to Robert Holden’s new book on the Enneagram, a core sense of deficiency.

How to Move From Lack to Abundance
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3 Ways to Connect More Fully with Mother Earth

Having fun connecting with the Divine Feminine? Doesn’t it feel amazing?

Here’s another way to connect to that essence.

It’s our last mothering tool.

Can you guess what it is?

Yes, it’s connecting to the great goddess on which we live and get ALL of our physical sustenance and nourishment, Mother Earth.

During the Covid lockdown, I did a wonderful initiation into seeing the earth as Tara- Tara Gaia. And yet, there are countless first nations who have and continue to honor the earth as our sacred mother.

3 Ways to Connect More Fully with Mother Earth
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How to Heal Using the Divine Feminine

How has your journey of re-parenting been going?

Have you been able to heal some of that woundedness?

Did you get a glimpse or feel into the excitement of your inner magic?!?

If you’re ready for an even deeper step, this is just for you.

Today we’re exploring how to work with the Divine Mother and bringing that woundedness to the Mother of all mothers, to the essence of the Goddess that dwells within.

How to Heal Using the Divine Feminine
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How to Heal Your Wounded Child & Access ...

I thought for the the next sequence of blogs, we’d explore this idea of mothering, being mothered, and re-parenting ourselves. It feels timely and necessary. Maybe it’s because I also work as a psychotherapist that this topic is much on my mind…

So today we’ll explore the idea of re-parenting our wounded inner child.

Are you familiar with that expression? The wounded child?

From Caroline Myss’ work, we know that we all have a child archetype in our constellation. In part, because each of us experienced a childhood. And, at some point, (unfortunately) we got a negative message(s) about ourselves.

How to Heal Your Wounded Child & Access Your Magic
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How to Keep Deepening Into Your ...

I bet you can see, even touch, a floor right now and perhaps a ceiling overhead- wherever you’re reading these words, yes?

Most structures have both , but did you know that this (floors & ceilings) is also an idea stock traders talk about?

It’s part of a metrics they use to evaluate where a stock may move. As a company’s stock drops in price, it can “hit a floor.” This might indicate a time to buy. Stocks can also “hit ceilings” which could indicate a time to sell. Obviously, this is a basic definition, but recently I took this way of thinking about floors and ceilings and applied it to the process of our inner work.

What do I mean?

How to Keep Deepening Into Your Self-Transformation

A New Way to Explore Creativity

A New Way to Explore Creativity

When you think about creativity, or being a creative person, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?

I’d be willing to bet that you’ve never thought about creativity like the legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal who died recently at the age of 92.

In an interview he did with Karen Michel on National Public Radio, he said: “People get after me… because I say there's no such thing as a creative person… we don't create a fly or a raindrop or a snowflake, but we can reflect creativity. And when we reflect creativity, we discover. And that's the whole thing about life - discovery. And that's what I live for - discovery.”

Are You A Tortoise or a Hare?

Are You A Tortoise or a Hare?

Recently, I’ve been thinking about the moral of Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.

You read it when you were a child. Yes?

So you know the tortoise wins the race because of his deliberate pace, while the rabbit- although faster moving- often stops to rest.

The implicit message being that “slow and steady wins the race.”

When I first got together with my husband, I would joke that he was the tortoise and I was the hare. It just fit our personality styles and ways of working.

He is deliberate and takes his time. I, on the other hand, want everything done yesterday, am more impulsive, and quick.

For years I thought that I should be more like him. Well, more like the tortoise. Actually, for my entire working life I felt that. Until recently.

Step into Your Holiness

Step into Your Holiness

I worked with a shaman a while back, and one of the ideas that’s really stuck with me is the notion that I (and by extension, you) are the temple, the sacred space, the church, the seat of power.

It lives in you.

I know it sounds weird, and it’s taken me a bit to get it. But the idea is that there isn’t any holy place outside of you that you need to visit in order to experience something transcendental.

THAT SPACE IS ACTUALLY WITHIN YOU.

I was reminded of this the other day, that I/we are the temple, and that wherever I/we go, there is peace, love, holy presence.

But how, then, do we remember this?

A New Way To View Your Life's Purpose

A New Way To View Your Life's Purpose

When I lived in Hong Kong in the 1990s, one of my closest friends was a painter. And whenever I’d get too insular, too focused on the nuts and bolts of my life’s journey, she’d remind me to “view the mountain from the plain.”

As you walk this spiritual path, it can be easy get consumed with looking at your feet, at the rocks and puddles along the way, and forget to take in the larger expanse, the view!

Why not do that right now?

Take a moment to zoom out. View your life’s journey from afar.

Where are you?

What have you accomplished thus far?

Part of why I appreciate her words is that they help us to remember to honor ourselves and the journey we have already undertaken.

What's Your Theme Song for 2023?

What's Your Theme Song for 2023?

January's already in full swing and yet it also feels as if the year has just begun! In part, that’s because of the giant gas ball of a planet, Saturn. According to Vedic astrology, it’s been in the sign of Capricorn for just about 2 years – pretty much the exact time we’ve been dealing with Covid!

And now it’s getting ready to move into Aquarius, meaning a new 2+ year period is getting launched! Supposedly, this period will be more calm and peaceful than the last one! Phew! 

In a way, thinking about this transit is exciting. It makes this time feel even more potent as a fresh start than a regular new year normally does. And it really begs the question, what do you want?

From my limited understanding, the invitation of this Saturn transit is for us to continue our individual and collective work towards greater harmony.

A Time for Standing Still

A Time for Standing Still

There’s a rune (Nordic oracle system) called Isa, translated into English as stand still. It looks like the capital letter I.

In his Book of Runes, Ralph Blum describes Isa as symbolizing, “the winter of spiritual life.” In other words, a time to stop and do nothing.

He goes on to say, “positive accomplishment is unlikely now. There is a freeze on useful activity, all your plans are on hold… trying to hold on can result in shallowness of feeling… seek to discover what it is you are holding onto that keeps this condition in effect, and let go. Shed, release, cleans away the old. That will bring on the thaw.”

Body Aches & Memories

Body Aches & Memories

I’ve had sciatic pain in my left leg for over 20 years. There’ve been times when it was excruciating, times when it was a continual dull ache, and times when I’ve barely felt a thing.

For some reason, it flared up recently. And even after I went to my massage therapist for her usual magic which LITERALLY makes the pain go away for months, it came right back!

That got me thinking about the chiropractor Dr. Scott Walker. He’s the founder of NET- Neuro-Emotional Technique of which I am a certified practitioner (learn more here).

The story Dr. Walker likes to tell about how he came upon this technique was that he was manipulating a patient, and the next week she returned with the same pain! This got him thinking that there must be something else going on besides his patient needing a physical adjustment. He stumbled into the recognition that we hold emotions in our physical tissue.

3 Strategies for Feeling Less Defensive

3 Strategies for Feeling Less Defensive

From the time I was a little girl, I’ve always felt like the world was a scary place. Maybe it was growing up in a city, possible harm lurking around every corner. Maybe it was how I was hardwired for potential threats.

Either way, it’s my default operating system.

So, imagine my surprise when I began my spiritual journey, and one of the invitations was to rest in God, to see the world as safe, to trust that I really am taken care of! Ha!

Honestly, it’s been decades in the making, this transition from fear to love. And it’s ongoing.

I still fall back into fear and forget.

Something Lost & Something Gained

Something Lost & Something Gained

This past Sunday was my sister, Melissa’s birthday. If she were still alive, she’d have turned 54. Only she died 12 years ago from metastasized breast cancer.

I still miss her every day, although as the number of years stretch away from her death, it grows easier. Less sorrow and more smiling in happy remembrance.

This year on her birthday something special happened. My grandson was born!

His arrival will never fully take away the loss of my sister, but it has brought so much joy and love into our family.

It isn’t that he fills a void per se, but it does feel as though the circle has been completed. A circle I didn’t even know felt incomplete.

10 Ways to Cultivate Inner Peace

10 Ways to Cultivate Inner Peace

Recently, I received an email from a woman who told me she was struggling with life challenges, and yearned for more inner peace.

Can you relate?

It might sound counterintuitive, but the most successful way to experience peace is to cultivate it within our own beings.

We think that our focus needs to be on external strife- on conflicts in our communities, aggression among nations- and while it is important to work for justice and world peace, it is even more critical to develop that quality within ourselves.

So, how do you foster peace within?

Here are 10 Ideas for You