Clearing

“You can draw it, sculpt it, write a vivid story about it, dance it, burn something, or bury it – anything that gives expression to that material without doing damage… Remember, a symbolic [...]

“We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.” –Pema Chödrön, “Start Where You Are” If you read my recent posts Stepping Into Stillness and Serving Life, I left you hanging with the [...]

I just saw a profoundly moving documentary on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) called “Serving Life.” It is a profile of prisoners at one of the toughest state penitentiaries who find a [...]

“Most [traditional] clearing efforts do not make room for us to feel our feelings, honor our ebbs and flows, create a container of safety, embrace our shadow side, or allow us to be more [...]

“Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now.” –Rumi Stillness. What if it could be as simple as turning on a switch inside you? An [...]

“Moving beyond my amateur doggy paddle. Learned the breast stroke today.”–Oprah Yes even the most famous and masterful among us push through resistance and fear to overcome a personal [...]

Moved by her final shows: joyful retrospectives of her extraordinary contributions to the world, I emailed Oprah at end of her 25th season. I thanked her for giving us so much, being so real, and [...]

When Anne Dimon, editor of Travel to Wellness, offered me the opportunity to become a regular contributor for the magazine, my first reaction was an enthusiastic yes! I love travel, and what [...]

Dear Sisters… It’s no secret that women have a critical role to play in shaping the future. The Dalai Lama’s proclamation that “the world will be saved by the Western [...]

“The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit in it.” –Edward Deming Andrews. Why do [...]