The seasons are changing—yes, from winter to spring. The days are getting longer, the weather is warming, snow is melting into crystal streams, and flowers are birthing through the dark earth. But in the realm of our human experience, the season of collective...
Through the misty sunrise, my eyes chase an image, struggling to make sense of what I see—my sense of safety seems to hinge on understanding the visual. I’m certain there’s some malefic presence stalking my solitude. But as the light of dawn breaks, I realize my gaze...
As it seems to happen in our world, when a word becomes more widely used, we adorn ourselves in the popularity of utilizing it without fully understanding its meaning, or we make its meaning fit our limited perspectives. We hold words as authority, and we don’t fully...
As Eckhart Tolle wrote 20 years ago in his book A New Earth, life is changing. We are living in a time of shifting consciousness. This has always been the case—generation after generation, our understanding evolves. As we grow, we often look back and realize that many...
I’ve left many things because I wasn’t happy: relationships, friendships, houses, cities, and jobs. I recall in those experiences saying that I just wasn’t happy. I wasn’t always clear on why I was feeling down, but I would feel softer once I gained distance, and I...
I’ve had a blissful day, I experienced so much productivity at work, I had meetings that felt fluid and connected and I taught a yoga class that was immensely nourishing for myself. I felt richly connected to my heart by the end of the day. But when I walked into my...
I no longer remember when I first met my anger, it’s become so much a part of who I am that its arrival alludes me. For so long I had a tumultuous relationship with her, she felt like shame that boiled in me, my failure as a woman for not always being perky or...
I’ve taken a pause from writing lately, for three reasons: One, I’ve been busy and didn’t want the pressure, although pressure has been my driving force in the past — I love pressure. Two, I’m digesting and decomposing life and information as it’s moved through me...
It’s early, my alarm isn’t set to sound for another hour, and yet I’m awake. I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. I feel a wave of anxiety wash over me as I realize that the brain fog I’ve been contending with will continue today, as it does when I’m tired. My emotions start...
Is anyone else noticing the shifts happening around us? Is anyone feeling that there’s something altering the entire ecosystem? The ethos of all the cultures on this planet are shifting, old models are no longer serving this new world and things are changing from...