Live Your Own Story

Live Your Own Story

A couple of weeks before my son Jesse’s fourth birthday, he leaned over our kitchen table, crayon in hand, carefully writing his birthday wish-list in crooked block letters on a sheet of drawing paper. From time to time he’d stop, lay his head down on the table and...

Call your stories home…

It’s the beginning of November, and the maple trees outside my window are stripping for winter in a shimmer of autumn gold. Nature tells the season’s story, and foreshadows the stories of the seasons to come. What stories have you been telling yourself...

This business of chakras…

This post was originally published in November, 2009 as Whose Chakra Is It Anyway. In a session with a client a while ago, I described the chakras of her business, and how they related to some problems she was experiencing. If you’re wondering how chakras and...

Making Stew: Onions, Om, and The Creative Journey

You start by washing, peeling and chopping vegetables. Splash of cool, clear water over your hands, washing away the mud and grime. The glistening beauty of potatoes, released from their skin. The orange family: cheery carrots, ruby yams. Brooding purple globes of...