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What does it mean to surrender? I was asked this question by a student recently in the context of my “Five S’s” of clearing: slow down, simplify, sense, surrender, and [...]

Last week’s post was an opportunity to take a peek in the closet. (Read it here). Today’s post is an opportunity to take the next step. It might be helpful to remember that focusing [...]

What do you think of my shoes? Here’s me trying on a pair of clogs in a tourist shop in Holland. How can anyone resist climbing into these things? They’re ridiculous. All joking [...]

Feeling and witnessing a task or a stressful situation in the present moment does a magical thing: it releases stuck energy, quiets the mind, helps us detach more easily, and creates openings [...]

“Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy.”–Brené Brown. We all do it. In a dual world of better and worse, bigger and smaller, winners and losers, we all fall into [...]

“Do you love it? Do you use it? Does it have a home?” My favorite three-part mantra for clearing works like a charm every time. Unless, of course, you don’t see the stuff that [...]

The inspirational piece below by Pema Chödrön is, in a nutshell, what I would call clearing. Allowing your feelings to arise  – without resisting them, or judging them, or fixating on them – [...]

As I see it there is clearing and there is clearing. There is the old paradigm of clearing clutter that makes us feel bad when we fail and sets us up for disappointment, again and again. And [...]

“It just ain’t possible to explain some things. It’s interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it – take it for what it is [...]

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, [...]