Last weekend I took a painting workshop. I wouldn’t call myself an artist – not in the cultural sense of what being an artist means – producing a product of art – with “talent.” Something unfolded that I want to share with you (it has to do with seahorses) because, my guess is, you’ve had

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Our brains like lists and stages to give us some kind of idea of where we are and where we’re heading. In Zen Buddhism, it’s the 10 Ox-Herding pictures. According to Rick Hanson, in his book, The Buddha’s Brain, there are 4. Both can be helpful. But first, let me back up to a universal

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You know when you have those moments where you did something or said something, and then immediately cringe at what just came from you. Or realize later it wasn’t the most “skillful” moment of your life? I had one of those moments this week.  I call those my Medusa moments. In Greek mythology she’s described

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I was on Skype with a client this week who is in a life transition. She knows it’s an important transition to make and has been having some fear with it (totally normal in life transitions). As we were working through the fear with our eyes closed, she went from feeling scared to feeling expansive,

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It’s that time of year, when thanks and giving (and let’s not forget black Friday) are the theme. Maybe we feel it, maybe we don’t (and maybe we shop and maybe we don’t). It was interesting – when our Sophia (women’s) group got together for dinner this week, one of the women said, “Let’s all

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Sometimes words don’t do justice. I could write about trust, but the mind can only absorb so much. The eyes – what the eyes pick up can sink into the unconscious – the place where anything is possible. Trust can be created, trust can be broken. Relationships can be created, relationships can be broken. Then

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The long answer is “YES.” Yes, yes, and yes. ANYTHING can be used to escape from what we feel in the body. Including meditation. And the entire spiritual path. “I’ll just say my prayers, do my mantras, meditate, wish good will to the world… but don’t ask me to call my brother I haven’t talked

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Sometimes the spiritual journey can seem like a hoax. What’s it all for anyway? And sometimes nothing else matters but the spiritual path. As if it finally provides meaning to life in a way that nothing else has. When it feels like a hoax is when we have expectations that aren’t being met. Caroline Myss

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Having a Catholic nun as one grandmother and a devout Catholic as another grandmother, I had a healthy dose of the Catholic experience growing up. I received a rosary from each grandmother every year for my birthday (need a rosary?), and went to church weekly. Every Sunday, dad would get us all piled into the

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I use to want to be “normal.” I use to want to fit in with the crowd. To be accepted by all. To be liked. To be normal. To be normal meant dressing normally, acting normally, working normally, and socially interacting normally. Well, I didn’t wear dresses when I was kid. I liked to play

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