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Put Your Clothes On: A Word on Body Shaming
“Put more clothes on” she said. Because yogis who show their bodies treat yoga like a fashion show, and men can’t control themselves and probably pleasure themselves to my image. That’s what she said....
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Taking Root: On Dissolving Resistance + Getting Grounded into a New Rhythm.
Loves, I’m still feeling this season of NEW. New intentions, new goals… and starting new habits to try to make your desires a real part of your life. It starts off easy—that first taste of freedom...
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Don’t Ignore Signs from the Universe
The universe works in mysterious ways. It is constantly working to make available to you the tools, the resources, the people, and the lessons you need to become the person you were meant to be which...
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How I Overcame My Social Anxiety
I was going through a stressful period. Lots of things were going on, all at once. I had a high-demand start-up job, money was tight, and we had a newborn. Stress built up, but I kept pushing forward....
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(An Invitation for You) & Why Fall Season Means so Much!
Some reflections of fall – and what it represents to me. Color is such a powerful healer and the fall colors light me up. (Despite the fact that people think that West Coasters do not get colors, we...
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In Search of Your Chord
There are 88 keys on a piano. 64 colors in the big box of Crayola. You can’t own a key and you can’t own a color. But once you start combining elements, the possibilities go way up. The opening chord...
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How to Better Handle Stress
Stress. I do not know anyone that does not experience it. Some of us deal with it daily, while for others it is more situational. No matter how or where stress shows up, it is never good for us yet we...
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Are You Clutter-Blind? Or Do You Know Someone Who Is?
One thing that continues to surprise me about the nature of good habits and happiness is the degree to which, for most people, outer order contributes to inner calm. More, really, than it should. In...
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A Conversation with Myself – the Dream of What One Day Could Be
A rabbi writes about a YouTube video that went viral called, “A Conversation With My Twelve Year Old Self.” Jeremiah McDonald was a clever twelve year-old boy who made a videotape of himself to be...
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How to Make an Execution of a Large Project Less Stressful
Execution of a Large Project: From Stress to Success Even workaholics want to relax sometimes, let alone ordinary people. We like to put a completion of the important tasks on the back burner and then...
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How to Free Yourself of the Comparison Curse
“He looks so happy.” “Why am I depressed?” “She’s from a big, loving family.” “Why do I feel so alone?” The Comparison Curse strikes again. I live a fun life. My wife and I have circled the globe for...
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Teaching Kids Empathy Means Not Hiding the Suffering
Part of teaching my kids empathy entails exposing them to the ugly, hopeless parts of life, and there’s no mama who wants to do that, but sometimes it meets us right in our path of an otherwise happy...
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Hope
It comes in like a lullaby. Quiet at first but so melodical that you recognize it. It calms you down and it gets you through another day. It almost feels like it is coming from really far away, from a...
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Beneath All Reaction
Your psycho-emotional defaults — your go to feelings — the ones that wash over you when doom enters your room . . . these are your messengers, a tremendous fuel-source that’s available if you tap into...
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How I Crushed Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Dreams
I didn’t plan on telling Neil deGrasse Tyson that I don’t believe in his dreams. But that’s what I did. I told him, “You’re living a dream life.” “I still have this fantasy,” he said. “It could be a...
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If You Loathe Self Promotion, Here’s Something to Cheer on Your Shine…
If you’re the kind of entrepreneur/creative that loathes self-promotion… is it because: 1 …it makes you feel like you’re pushing something on someone? New thought: Passion is a force—an essential force...
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Savvy Chimpanzees and a Failure of Imagination
In, What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant wrote, “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s...
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Remembering Who We Are
As human vessels, we are constantly inundated with information and wisdom that comes directly via our primary light source—the sun. Revolutionaries have known the power of this force for aeons. It is...
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The Power Of Your Story
It’s been a good month. One of those months that makes me realise just how much my life has changed since I first tapped out my thoughts and launched them into cyberspace, nearly three years ago....
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The Importance of Self-Care in Hostile Times
Do you feel overwhelmed with the hostility that’s out there in the news and pervasive on every social media outlet? Is every newscast you watch, even if you try to avoid it, negatively impacting you?...
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