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Can you go with the flow?

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”…

4 questions to help you release & let go of 2015

It’s Saturday night in Austin, it’s raining and cold out and my son is away at a sleep-over. My husband and I are relaxing in front of the fireplace. In front of us: paper strips, a thin, blue marker, a metal pail and a lighter. No, we’re…

Rituals: why I love them & why they matter

Life is not a thing to be managed but a mystery to be lived. Recently my extended family got into a bit of a heated mess around a long-time Christmas giving tradition and how best –or even why— we should carry it out. It really crystalized…

Is your pace sustainable?

This past weekend at my Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health New Way of Being Women's Self-Renewal Retreat I met a woman who was the dean at a large medical school. She said they just added a class on Self-Care & Resiliency to their…

Are You Stingy with Your Love?

This Saturday is the 13 year anniversary of my mom’s passing. Healthy and active, she died at age 60 from congestive heart failure as a result of a sudden, serious case of the flu. She’s been on my mind a lot lately. Last Wednesday I…

What Are Weekends For?

 For the last few months I’ve been working a lot (read more). Often this has involved working straight through the weekend in order to meet key deadlines related to my book launch. If you know me, you'll vouch that this isn’t my norm.…

Bring on the Magic!!

Every year in January since I was about 30, I have created a vision board--basically a visual snapshot of what you want to experience in your life (athletes and top entertainers do this all the time to help them focus on and meet their goals).…

People First, Things Second

As a life balance teacher, I'm always questioning how I can help myself and others come into greater equilibrium--not just around work and life, but around feeling and thinking, being and doing, and giving and receiving. Yesterday morning…

Sustainability … for Self

The next twelve months will be a time of incredible growth and expansion for me--personally and professionally. And sensing this, over the weekend, I woke up Sunday morning feeling stress and anxiety course through my body as I anticipated…

Is Facebook Changing Who You Are?

Last Saturday, after an early morning family walk and outing, I came home, showered, put away the groceries and posted the following on my personal Facebook page: "Early morning family hike around east Town Lake Trail (beautiful rowing on…

I Am a Social Activist

This past Sunday my son and I stumbled upon Lady Gaga's new Born This Way initiative, launched recently at Harvard, which focuses on  heightening understanding around bullying and promoting a more compassionate society. It spurred a great…

Slow Down You Move Too Fast!

This weekend I found myself frequently humming, "Slow down, you move too fast ..." Lately, it feels like life is moving too fast. A month feels like a week--a week, like a day. Saturday night we really felt the effects of this. My…
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