Something is approaching the edge of my land a wolf that won’t back down…
Expanding Consciousness
Dying To Be Me. One of the most powerful books I’ve read.
Some books are transmissions of energy. There’s something ineffable beyond the words themselves, and you know that you’re getting a download as you connect with the text. Dying To Me by Anita Moorjani is one of those incredible books.
what would you like to stop doing?
When someone has the good sense and conviction to stop doing what’s not working for them, well, it calls for a national holiday. The brilliance of simplification needs to be celebrated! It often goes like this…
it’s not too late to be… you. (and why I changed my site name).
Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.
falling into your joy: a winter solstice love letter with soundtrack
I am more loving today than I was this time last year. Deeply and evidently so. I plan to say the same thing this time next year. It’s all so precious. And rock solid.
in honour of the fact that life is short: ecstatic sex, quitting, and wearing your best
wear your white shirts. get them pressed. use your good dishes — everyday. shave on weekends. do not wait for special occasions. do not tuck your best away in the drawers, in the back of the closet, in your heart…
stop hoping + sell your sofa already : white-hot round-up (november)
November 2011 Roundup: A young entrepreneur, clutching a mic. A room full of affluence, cameras, bright lights. Thirty seconds to convince one of the wealthiest moguls on earth to give her a meeting.
don’t let us down (and don’t wait to say thank you) : october’s white hot round-up
Ready for some primal wisdom? Even destiny has an expiry date. And if you’ve spent an eternity trying to wish, hammer, hope, push and ploy things into form, maybe it’s time to point your dream in another direction.
getting to good ideas
Beyond changes in workflow, there are daily personal practices you can add your uncertainty “scaffolding” that work on a deeper mindset-tuning level time, can have a profound effect not only on how you experience the creative process, but on how you experience life in a world where there is no new normal.
get immediate relief: energy leaks + enlightenment
Every time you make REPEATED contact with aggravating tasks and situations, you make a conscious or unconscious choice to endure (the root of the word endure is ‘to suffer’,) and to settle with less-than-ideal. This kind of aggravation triggers resentment and bad ju-ju…
discerning vs. cynical…with a bit of Beyonce for good measure
Discerning loves the thrill of making up his own mind. Cynical has already made up his mind.
an ode to girlfriends everywhere
March 2011 Roundup: Dusty (and happy) from a sojourn to my Southwestern stomping grounds. Allowing the sacred hot-tubbing time to alchemize cynicism into shrewdness.
open up any way
open wide. give your desires words. out loud words. tenderly gaze of the eye to eye. expose your craving anyway you must, under a blanket or backed by a rented band. reveal your intentions, clean. stand there, vulnerable, waiting.
why self-improvement makes you neurotic
I’m about to make a major admission of error. I am hereby fessing up to a seriously flawed paradigm that has informed much of my adult life, and, (crap, sorry, apologies in advance,) too much of what I’ve espoused. Like most speakers, I have a pre-presentation ritual…
the soul of what you want to create: an interview with Hiro Boga
Whenever I talk to Hiro Boga, I know I’m in the presence of…true presence. Rare and lucid is she. Hiro is a master intuitive who has helped thousands of clients, including me, fire up their creative sovereignty — the ability to rule your inner world, with dignity and intention. I spoke to Hiro the other day, and the conversation was luminous, indeed…
beware of possibility thinking: how to leverage your manifestation ju-ju
You can’t dream in images of possibility-maybe-could-be-perhaps and get manifestation traction. It’s profoundly unrequited. Possibility can be a lot like purgatory. You just never quite get there, not even in your dreams. Wizardry is about conjuring up an experience of DONE (not “maybe”.) Succeeded. Achieved. Arrived. Pow!…
monthly round up: october was…gripping, generous + golden
October 2010 Roundup: There’s pain all around us. It’s tempting to fret, pace, yank your hair and worry yourself into the ground. But it’s not pro-active. So refuse to do it.
transparency. when it works and when it bombs.
At it’s worst, transparency without the intention of teaching can amount to a lot of diarist wanking. Which has it’s place, of course. Voyeurism and art are great lovers, and there’s a deep translation of shared humanness that happens when we get all bloody and exposed in our creations—and when someone else is provoked by our outpouring, or even more profoundly, relates to it, then, well, it’s a divine kind of wow…
monthly round up: september was fully-saturated, swift… and soft
7 things I know about active letting go. De-cluttering is a practice—like meditating or playing the piano. Shedding, clearing and carving space is a creative act.
7 tiny big life shifters
Screw it. I LIKE to check my email first thing in the morning. It doesn’t mean that I’m a distracted workaholic, it means I’m an excited Creative who loves her friends and new friends and what she does with her day…
monthly round up: august was…expansive
August 2010 Roundup: depression vs. sadness: the power of mincing words. Sadness strips you raw. Depression muffles and muddles.
what do you call yourself?
Labels are a necessary and unavoidable function of most cultures. We need them like we need traffic lights and handshakes. Recognize if you’ve outgrown your “title”. Deepen your claim, or lighten it right up. Carve out your own personal lexicon. Snug, and radiant…
monthly round up: july was…encouraging
July 2010 Roundup: There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.
confidence vs. blind faith: rock ’em both
Confidence is earned. No exceptions. There are NO short cuts to initiation. Ever. It’s law. You can do it quick n’ dirty, or you can do it slow, like, over life times kind of slow. But confidence is the result of insight and insight comes from experiencing things on a very deep level…
escaping? from what? your pain? or your power?
I’m a recovering Metaphysical Overachiever. After I got done being a good Catholic girl I moved on to being a Good New Age Girl. Subtly, I just swapped one gospel with the other. I just wanted to get it right, you know. I was up for facing demons…
expand your life, take your dogma for a walk
Dogma comes in all kinds of packaging — usually just the right size to fit our insecurities and blind spots. Whether you’re fighting for peace (what a searing oxymoron that is,) or you’re converting meat-eaters to veggie burgers, you do what you do because it feels really good to think you’re right…
fear.less stories: the beautiful epidemic of fear
Everyone is struggling with the same thing: fear of being his or her true self. Everyone from artists to start-ups to high-level CEO’s; everyone. And still, I’ve gotta ask, “Do you want to be scared or do you want to be broke? Do you want to be scared, or do you want to move forward?”
the sacred yes we wish for… and warrant
Ideally, you give yourself the Yes first. That self-love methodology is all neat and tidy and evolved. But I think you still get evolution bonus points even if it takes a dozen power people to convince you that you are fabulous.
the worst business advice i’ve received
When you’re the start-up beggar, it’s tough to be choosy. But remember the rules of nature: otherwise cute and friendly animals tend to get vicious when their territory or uh, nuts are threatened.
what are your words for the new year?
Every new year some words choose me, like a magic spell to be cast on the year ahead. This year’s ensemble showed up as it’s own little poem of truth: Pure Love Innovates…
