Teachings
How to Start Meditating: 10 Easy (Fun & Different!) Ways
Raise your hand if you’ve ever meditated. I can’t count the number of times I’ve polled a room with this question only to be greeted with sheepish grins: “I know I should meditate!” “I want to, but don’t know how!” “I tried it a few times, but it was just too hard.”...
9 Practical Ways to Use Shamanism in Your Everyday Life
If you had told me 20 years ago that I’d use shamanism in my daily life, let alone become a shaman, I would have looked at you like you had two heads. A what?? Like so many others, my life is full: three kids, a home, a husband, two dogs, bills, volunteering, many...
Would I Trade My Husband for a Housekeeper?
My marriage feels like it was put in a blender – one of those ultra-powerful Vitamix ones. Moving from the beach to the mountains, pregnant, without jobs, will do that to you. All the changes gave us the opportunity to re-examine the roles we play, how we relate to...
I Struggled with Self-Care Until…. What About You?
I have taken care of plenty in my life – two children plus a (step)son, multiple homes, clients, aging parents, classrooms of children, various pets including several dogs, mice, a bird, and a friend’s cat, the grocery list, fancy dinner parties, friends in need… And...
What To Do on a Bad Mom Day
I was on my best behavior that day. Really, I was. I played with the baby on the rug for hours. (Okay, at least it seemed like hours.) I remembered to bring a snack in the car for after school pick up. (I don’t always remember food and hey, I’m not always on time.)...
Sexy & Supersized vs. Simple Sustainable Self-Care
I’ve scaled pyramids and sacred sites, attended monthly meditation retreats for over a decade, and luxuriated at 5-star spas. I’ve travelled the globe with world famous shamans and twisted into advanced poses with master yogis and yoginis. (That's me at the pyramids...
Shifting and Shaking
The past year+ has been a doozy - not just for me, but for so many people I know. Big moves. New careers. Losing loved ones. Health challenges. (Or all of the above). How have you been faring? My world shifted and was shaken through – moving to another state, closing...
How to Create Sacred Silent Time for Yourself – and Your Sanity
As a working mama, I absolutely adore time to myself. Particularly quiet time to myself. And while meditating feels delicious - it’s like pushing the reset button for me, I often didn’t make time to do it…. until life became so intense that I had no choice. During my...
Conquering the Conflict Behind Speaking Your Truth
As a recovering good girl, I like when people are happy with me – which means my first tendency is to shrink away from telling hard truths. Yet speaking the truth – about how you really feel, what you really want, or what your intuition is telling you, can bring great...
From Annoyed to AWESOME in 2 Steps
“How are you?” A seemingly simple question, and yet the answer often eludes me. Am I annoyed? Or is life AWESOME? Depends on my point of view. Over the holidays, I bonked. Too much sugar, wheat, activity, presents, lights. I went down into that grumpy, annoyed,...
