I had a beautiful conversation with a friend this morning who is going through a big life transition – leaving her relationship. We talked about the loneliness that comes  after living with someone for so long, or even when we haven’t been living with some one. She said it comes up for her sometimes, and

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Doubt. A word and feeling that can be pervasive in thought and action. “I doubt this will work out, or work at all,” “I doubt that I can do this,” “I doubt that they are capable of this.” It’s like a black ooze that runs through our energy, coating hopes and dreams, desires and passions,

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Sometimes we just have a bad day. Even when everything is going “well,” or it’s several days of “bad days,” they are real and can put us into a funky place mentally and emotionally. I recently found myself in one of these days, feeling low energy, mentally and emotionally drained, and not motivated to do

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My family is visiting for two weeks here in Bozeman over the holidays. It’s wonderful to have them here, and truly a gift given that in August of this year, it was thought that Mom had cancer. But it turns out it was just a very large benign tumor, so here we are celebrating life

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One spring, after years of living in a somewhat cluttered home, I decided it was time to clear out the space, in more ways than one. It was over a six month period, tackling one corner of the house per week. It started with simple places, like the kitchen table, the magazine rack, and the

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This week has brought conflict and clarity, stress and peace. As humans, we obviously don’t get along with everyone in the world that we meet, work with, play with, are family with, and this is a very real part of the human experience. The gift is how we react to a situation; reaction vs. action or

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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone“ ~Neale Donald Walsch I recently returned from a week-long writing workshop at the Omega Institute in New York, a beautiful center created to awaken the best in a person’s spirit. It’s located 2 hours north of NYC in the countryside set along a lake, with all the

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The spiritual path is full of joy, struggle, patience, growth, obstacles, miracles, and much more. But we do it because we know there is a different way of being in life, one with less struggle, less “obstacles” because we start to see life from a different perspective. Walking the path changes the lens of our

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I woke this morning with a sadness in my chest, a sadness for wanting things to be different than they are. “Why can’t it be the way I want?” I ask the universe. Realizing self-pity only goes so far, I tried to look at what the bright side of not getting what I want was.

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