Do you struggle with conflict like I do? Do you run and hide or stay silent so you don’t have to get in an argument with someone?  That was me to a tee. It use to work pretty well for me. I just ran away (avoided) and then didn’t deal. Done.  But the side affect?

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When I took my first ballroom dancing class (country two-step) 10 years ago, I felt awkward, uncoordinated, and most of all, phobic of my partner. “Ewww – I’m suppose to touch this guy I don’t know – I mean be that close to him?” That was my own insecurities of course – nothing to do

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Life is a choice. It’s all a choice. I’m not talking about the events of life, but how you respond to those events, whether you like them or not. And how you respond to the opportunities in your life. How many times today, this week, or this month have you said the words, “I can’t”

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Do you get tired of people saying to you, “Well, just let go of it/him/her”? Or argue with yourself that it’s time to let go, but you don’t know how to? I want to share with you one of my favorite stories told by my spiritual teacher Matthew when he was three years into his

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Life’s challenges can be a springboard to happiness. You might laugh, and say “No way, hard times SUCK, and I wish I didn’t have to go through them!” Well, I’m here to tell you differently. To say to you, “Hard times are a gift.”  Yes, it’s true. IF you take the path of learning from

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~Anatole France The word CHANGE. What does it bring up for you? Do you notice joy, fear, excitement, anxiety, or dread? In the

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I know what you’re thinking, “I hate having anxiety!” – maybe I’m wrong in saying this, but my guess is, I’m not. It’s not a pleasant feeling: maybe you have a knot in your stomach, tightness in your chest or shoulders, nausea, insomnia, or fatigue. I know for me, I didn’t like it when I

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So there I was. Alaska. 10 of us moving up a glacier. I’m in charge on this trip – “the expert” so to speak. With 20 years of doing this stuff, you’d think I was the expert, or at least my ego thinks so. We’re walking up a glacier attempting to complete an ambitious route

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“No, I can’t, I don’t have enough time” or “No, I can’t, I don’t have enough money.” Familiar excuses I spent much of my life running through my head, and saying them to others. “Do you want to go to…. Angela?”, “No, I can’t afford it” I’d reply. “A beautiful retreat to relax and rejuvenate…”

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As I continue my journey of growth and evolving, I continue the unfolding of my feminine side. Until I was 35, I rejected my feminine side. This included dressing in more masculine clothes, ignoring my wisdom and intuition, dis-respecting feminine power, and seeing heart and emotions as “weak.”  Then one day, when I went to

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