Love is on my mind today. Love of others and love of ourselves. Two issues arise again and again when I teach about lovingkindness and mindfulness: the lack of self-compassion and the lingering hurt in relationships. Luckily, there is a lovingkindness mindfulness practice you can learn that addresses both. Self-Compassion In terms of self-compassion, Continue Reading
Truth: “We” Is The Only Way
These times require us to acknowledge the truth that WE are all connected. It is the only way. It has always been the truth, but we have failed to accept this reality and live into it. The poet Adrienne Rich writes, "we have lost track of the meaning of “we..." Our world and our country and our relationships demand that we re-orient ourselves. The Continue Reading
Bedtime Rituals: Goodnight Moon for Grownups
The other day, I asked a group of adults what their bedtime rituals were and people responded with hesitance. Some people said they went to bed watching the news. Others replied that they used to read novels religiously before bed, but had stopped. Still others said they checked their phones one last time for messages. Not one person had a regular practice Continue Reading
Growing Into Self Acceptance
Sometimes it takes many, many years to finally rest into who you uniquely are. This acceptance comes with the enormous relief that you don't have to try so hard to be anything other than who you are right this minute. WHAT IF from this moment forward, your life task was to settle into your own self - to learn how to express what only YOU can bring into Continue Reading
Never Again is Now
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated on this day, January 27, in 1945. Today, the world remembers that 17 million souls, including one-third of the global population of Jews, were murdered in the genocide of the Nazi regime. How is it possible that such atrocities were committed? First, the Nazis began by portraying Jews and other Continue Reading
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