The Things That Scare You – a video poem
This Fall has been a time of accelerating change, in the lives of so many of us, and in the life of our world. For the most part, these are changes we have actively chosen -- and they are evolutionary in their effects. And yet, some of our inner selves are more...
You are a Miracle
This four-minute video poem--my very first!--emerges from my deep desire to see you and every one you love shine your light in the world, joyfully, freely, fully. Free of the Not-Enoughs and Shoulds--the Have-To's and Maybe's and But's--may you discover, celebrate and...
A Horizon of Broken Stones
Some years ago, I spent two weeks at an Ayurvedic resort in the mountains near Pune, in Western India. The resort overlooked a clear blue lake, set like a jewel in a bowl of scrubby hills the color of deer-hide. The nearest town was a couple of hours drive away, along...
Story-Making, World-Making
As I sit, writing, at my desk on this November morning, the sky is just beginning to emerge in shades of pale gray, streaked with persimmon along the Eastern horizon. The story the season tells is written in the clouds that hover high above the bay - reflected in...
To Change a Pattern, Create a New Story
Last summer, I was talking with a client whose normally successful business was experiencing a slump. Sales were down. Product returns were up. She knows her work is valuable. She knows her business makes a tremendous contribution to her clients and customers. She...
Dreaming in the Dark
It's five-thirty in the morning, and dark. Dark when I wake up. Dark when I go to bed. Murky, much of the day -- autumn clouds, mist and rain muffle the contours of the Pacific Northwest landscape where I live. Light. The memory of light. Beneath the closed eyelids of...
Uncertainty: Riding the Waves
This week, I began teaching the fourth session of my 12-week program, Become Your Own Business Adviser. And, since the program is all about working with the powers of wholeness and subtle energy to create a vision and make it happen in the "real" world, I've been...
After the Retreat Is Over: Energy Alchemy for Teachers
A couple of weeks ago, Jen Louden and I were talking about the exhaustion and energetic crash that so many of us experience after we've finished teaching a program, retreat, or workshop. You know the feeling. The incredible high of teaching a successful retreat , of...
A Gift of Devas
Today, I celebrate my 62nd birthday. Six decades on this Earth, and I'm still learning: to be here more fully to love more freely to live more joyfully to share my gifts and blessings more abundantly to trust more deeply to surrender to the creative flow of the...
I Owe, I Owe… On right relationship with debt
This morning, I opened an email from a client who said: "I recently became aware that I've been strangling the life blood out of my business by paying down debt as soon as money appears in my bank account. So I always feel behind, always short, never enough to do what...