Religious

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~Jack Canfield Freezing in fear is something I have done since I was a child. My first home was an unsafe one, living with my alcoholic granddad. Once upon a time I didn’t know life without fear. I learned young to scan for danger. How […]

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” ~Ray Bradbury I have a weekly ritual of stopping

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ~Robert Bach I have always wanted to create a family. As a child, I lovingly cared for my dolls and fell head over heels for my college boyfriend. Kneeling before me with a ring, he said, “I want you to be

Hi friends! I’m excited to invite you to the upcoming Global Joy Summit, a FREE online even running from November 13th to 16th. This is an amazing opportunity to be inspired by the contagious joy and timely message of the Dalai Lama and the late, great Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and learn from 30+ renowned joy scientists,

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” ~Brené Brown A few years ago, when I began recovering from childhood trauma, the first thing I learned was that I needed to master the skill of self-awareness. However, becoming aware came with

“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.” ~Eckhart Tolle When my mother told me, “Honey, you don’t understand; you can’t,” initially I felt like she was being condescending. It was Mother’s Day and, unbeknownst to me, the last time I’d see her before her final hospital visit. We’d

“Grief is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” ~Jamie Anderson I knew my son

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” ~Roberto Assagioli When I was a little girl, I used to wonder what my father was like. Was he a nice man? What did he look like? Did he think about me? Did he love me? But, above all I wondered why

“Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.” ~Danielle Orner I was slumped against a wall at Oxford Circus Station early one Sunday evening when an irritated male voice suddenly barked, “MOVE!” Moments beforehand, I had lost my vision. Without conscious

“Your body does not need to be fixed, because your body is not a problem. Your body is a person.” ~Jamie Lee Finch I was thirty years old when I realized that I was completely dissociated from my body. I grew up in the height of the purity culture movement in American Evangelicalism. Purity culture