meditation

Don’t just do something, sit there

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I feel edgy. And unsettled. And a bit anxious. Between the bomb violence in Austin last week (my hometown), the current political climate, the wonderful but emotional March for our Lives rallies on Saturday and my always-pushing-the-boundaries…
MINDFULNESS

My word for 2018 is KINDNESS

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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." -Albert Schweitzer In early January, I sat on my meditation cushion preparing for my regular morning…

4 questions I’m asking before I leap into 2018

The weeks before and after New Year's Day were hard. Really hard. As a result, I've been moving at a snail's pace when it comes to envisioning and preparing for 2018. I feel I'm still releasing 2017, digesting all the challenging lessons and…
spirituality

Who do you want to BE in 2018?

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa Years ago, my husband, son, and I visited our dear family friends —and native Irish speakers — who live in a fishing village outside of…
self-care

3 reasons I think we should all do yoga

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This past weekend I was visiting with a group of women who were sharing about their battles with depression. My friend Cara turned to me and asked, "Renee, what do you when you feel down or hopeless?"  I thought for a moment about all the loss…
living intentionally

Maybe everything is perfect

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"If you want reality to be different than what it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.” Author/teacher Byron Katie We had a really bumpy holiday. There was some extended-family discord around our Christmas celebration,…
rest and renewal

5 ways to support rest & renewal this holiday

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Yesterday I spent an hour with my November/December calendar--not penciling things in, but cancelling pending events and making choices that supported a more open, spacious, restorative winter schedule. Does the thought of hanging lights…
mindfulness

4 good things born from these times

As I travel around the US speaking and facilitating resiliency workshops/retreats, just about everywhere I go, I witness emotional fatigue and exhaustion. I know Clarissa Pinkola Estes says, “We were made for these times.” But between all…
mindfulness

Are your relationships fueled by love or fear?

I don’t write much about my son, now 15, out of respect for his privacy and journey to becoming a young man. But it’s not a secret among my friends that parenting a teen has been the hardest thing my husband and I have ever done. (I’m…
self-care

Change your environment, change your perspective

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This past weekend while I was leading a women’s self-care retreat at Esalen–a beautiful, legendary 40-year-old retreat center in stunning Big Sur, CA–I was reminded of the power of changing environments to shift perspective. As I lay…
mindfulness

Do you see things in black and white?

“Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” ~Shakespeare Around the globe, many of us are experiencing deep frustration and despair right now. Others are expanding joyfully into new ways of being and seeing. And most…

Feeling powerless? Try action-motivation-action

This past July I was driving in Austin and heard a news story about Syrian refugees who were stranded in the middle of the Mediterranean in a political gridlock with slim hopes of making it to a safe haven. They apparently had embarked on the…
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