During this season I always attempt to lean into the beauty of intentional action and reflection. While collective and community spirit is abound, there's no lack of information and support out there for anxiety reduction, gift-giving, cooking, and gratitude cultivation (and the list goes on) This post is about the one thing you need in order to maximize and fully drink in the power of connection:  present-mindedness. I offer you guidance in how to really dig into the magnificence around you, so that every moment you encounter can be wholly received. Often, we are passengers to our own lives just hurrying through with a task list. This is no way to live joyfully, rather, we live to accomplish versus living for the joy of living. It's not about doing, it's about being. Consider this quote,  "If I chase it, I separate into the chaser and the chased. If I am it, I am it and nothing else."  -John Lilly. Whatever this holiday season brings you, allow it to be ful...

Buddha transmuting arrows of illusion into flowers We have a wisdom within our being that is waiting to be born, savored and shared. It's a historic and seemingly forgotten knowingness of the God source within combined with the nectar of our unique experiences. When you incarnate, you often forget this wisdom because the veil of our dense human experience masks the truth. But it's in you. I have called this before "your special sauce" but it's really your antidote to suffering. This wisdom is the divine recipe formulated by the unique road we have traveled- the past lifetimes we have lived, the skills we have honed, the pain we have endured- all equates to awareness that informs our purpose on this planet. That medicine is the remedy or the antibody of our current suffering and also what we are meant to teach and impart to others . Rumi says it like this:  "the wound is the place where light enters you."  Essentially, once we overcome a hardship...

Expanding your mind beyond fear is an incredible super power and I'd like to share with you how to do that so you can achieve your highest possible outcome with all things abundant, while also not avoiding the parts of you that still need healing. The first thing you need to know is this: the mind drives the manifestation ability within you. This means that you are a powerful force of receiving, or blocking things you want.  That's why it's imperative your mind is in alignment with what you deeply desire. Think about universal manifestation principles like little worker bees paving a path. This group needs a leader (queen bee) to tell them what to build, when, and in what direction. Hey, that's you! And so we direct the course of outcome with our intentions, which generate feelings, and in turn trigger actions that lasso our outcome. This happens with your awareness or not. This happens both unconsciously and consciously. Also, this door swings both ways, meaning you...

You have a divine inheritance, yes you do. This article is about helping you discover the awesome cloak of wisdom, the light, or downloaded inheritance within you. And even more importantly, assisting you in learning how to access it and wear it well.  When we begin to wear our coat with awareness, we can step into our power. Here's a commitment I'd like you to make: read this with an expanded mind and heart. Do your best not to over think, or Rubiks-cube what your light is.  So yes, you are wearing a majestic cloak of power... That is to say that you come here, to this planet, with a special recipe of ingredients. This set of ingredients has been imprinted into your fabric or soul memory and serves as a unique skill set that you hold within you. Our inheritance is indeed informed by our ancestors, and we also add to it with every lifetime as we develop new skills and talents. As our conscious evolves and we learn lessons, that too becomes part of our wisdom downloaded in...

This is the 3rd blog I've tried to publish in August. The inspiration and energetic push hasn't been there to finish them. I typically wait for the right energy to move through me to extend a message to you that is divinely timed and in season, and when the words aren't there, I trust that also. But miraculously, this week, the words arrived for a new topic: fragility of life. While there is no end to the striving in humans it seems -  running, sitting, shopping, cleaning, driving, exercising, working, organizing, planning, typing, scrolling, controlling scrutinizing, reading, thinking, talking, changing, buying, craving, building, saving, doing, caring for, distracting, numbing, etc, ....isn't it also true that we often live our lives in a flash and in ignorance to our mortality until it is upon us? We tend to focus on the tasks and the day to day, with our hands and minds in the past or future. By the way, if you are wondering, I am no different as I sit with...

I am a fire sign, (Sagittarius) and I think I wear that well (most of the time) in that I embrace all things fiery- passion, movement, energy, ambition and red pepper flakes. I think I do this naturally and without resistance. Of course all coins have another side and so I also work with the energy of anger, impulsivity, boldness and recklessness that comes along with fire constitutions. Sometimes gracefully, and sometimes not so gracefully. We also all happen to be in a fire sign energy during the recent cosmic times. Mercury retrograde is happening in Leo July 25 to August 18.  If you are wondering what that means- essentially the planet that governs mental energy and communication energetically spins backward during Leo, a very boastful, fiery, leader, stage-grabbing sign. So we can expect miscommunication to involve power struggles, ego and control. While this may sound scary, there's also opportunity hidden in the flames of these fears. Here I put forth 4 powerful forces...

It seems only right to reflect on the ways we are free this time of year. Last year at this time I thought about being free from environmental constraints and personal beliefs that limited my full jump into private practice. This year, I reflect on liberation from a specific kind of fear.... the fear of unconditional love. Unconditional love generates from within and is cultivated by generous and warm offerings to oneself. I admit, I am better at this energy going outward versus inward. I see the fear of unconditional love being present in myself and in many of the clients I serve and it looks like this... "excuse me, I'm growing here." Resistance to unconditional love seems to serve a function of keeping a handle on self growth. For example, if I can maintain a critical eye of self, I can be ever-evolving and improving. Somehow, self-reflection slips into conditional love because we are tying self-acceptance to the process of change. It can also look like this: the ...