mindfulness

7 Back-to-School Strategies to Support More Flow

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It’s 1976. I’m in fifth grade and standing by our front door with my red plaid backpack. My eyes scanning, I watch my four younger brothers dart from room to room. My stomach is in knots. It’s 7:45 a.m. We should have left fifteen minutes…
mindfulness

Many Things Are True At Once

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Shakespeare said, “Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” Around the globe, many of us are experiencing deep frustration, pain and despair right now. Others are expanding joyfully in to radical new ways of being and seeing.…
mindfulness

(Video) How Can You Do Less (to experience more)?

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Last week I was juggling work deadlines, training a new staff member and packing up to head out of town for vacation. One evening, while driving to my community singing class (an hour away), I found myself feeling more and more tired. More…
stress management

4 Ways to Invoke Self-Compassion

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Ever notice when you're seeing everything that's not working ... rather than everything that is? Last week I was here. Then, I paused. I stepped on to my front porch to look at the trees and drink in the reminder that I'm going through numerous…
mindfulness

Can You Be With Things Exactly As They Are?

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Everywhere I go, people are echoing variations of the same song: the last several years changed how I see and feel about everything. I don't want to go back but I'm confused about my next steps. Now what?   Yes we're dynamic and things are…
mindfulness

8 Tips for Re-Balancing & Finding Your Center

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Recently I led a virtual self-care workshop for parents in the communications field. Most are navigating working from home, a changing educational landscape and parenting in uncertain times. Erin, one of the attendees, shared with me through…
mindfulness

Are You Choosing Love or Fear? (Video)

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“Love After Love"  by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the…
mindfulness

How Do You Slow Down (when everything is sped up)?

“Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing…
mindfulness

(Video) Can You Be With What Is?

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  I sent my husband to the farmer's market last Saturday to get arugula, kale, spinach and lettuce. He came home with a hard-skinned, oblong Japanese squash.  Maybe this year is not going quite as you had planned? This past week I heard…
mindfulness

5 Ways to Find Rest & Renewal This Week

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Last week I spent an hour with my calendar--not penciling things in, but revisiting pending events and making intentional choices that support a more open, spacious, restorative winter schedule. Does the thought of returning presents and attending…
mindfulness

8 Ways To Embrace Your Shadow

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While I love celebrating Christmas as a season of light and time of spiritual renewal, sometimes the days before and after this sacred holiday can be a bit dark for me. Between the cold, grey weather, honoring my deceased mother's Dec. 20th…
self-care

What Wakes You Up (+ a message from my Dad)?

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My father--a brilliant, eccentric, adventurous, life-loving physician and ardent student of philosophy--died suddenly of a heart attack at age 56 (my current age). He crossed over on Dec. 3rd leaving six children. "Don't die with your music…
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