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Be brave, go slow: Our collective reorientation.

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We are in a collective reorientation. Spirit is asking us to slow down and pay attention to our breathing.

The in-between place you’re in. It’s real.

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The in-between is uncomfortable and agitating. And slightly erotic—creative tension is like that. The polarities of what was and what could be, of holding your breath while you long to exhale.

Spiritual practice won’t stop shitty things from happening to you. However…

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Yoga isn’t going to make you impervious to criticism — because criticism bites. Meditation doesn’t make divorce less brutal — because divorce is rough no matter how it goes down. Green juice won’t keep the creep at work away — creeps like to creep. And prayer will not make your illness less intense to deal with — physical burdens are…burdensome.

D Digest: Refuse to worry. Try loving your sadness. Here’s my June roundup.

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What to do when things suck. (hint: don't gloss over it.) Don’t deny what’s occurring. The power to change what's happening comes from accepting it first.We can't instantly LEAP from pain to happiness. We can get from pain to happiness really quickly, but there are...

D Digest: Sisterhood, thoughts on infidelity [VIDEO] and admitting when it sucks. My May roundup!

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Infidelity, sisterhood, and self-respect either way. #Lemonade and Love. I’ve got a lot of thoughts about infidelity in particular — which is at the heart of Lemonade. In committed relationships you bleed, you sweat, you change. You contort, love, fuck, and devote to...

Recovering from self-help exhaustion? Join the club.

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My friend Jess Ortner and I had a great conversation about the downer of always trying to be up. Perfect for her podcast called Adventures in Happiness. This is one of my favourite, truly useful conversations for being on the so-called “Path”.

How gentleness creates the big breakthrough

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The most powerful practice of all has nothing to do with motivation or endurance. The most powerful pain remedy, elixir, solution, galvanizer, waker-upper, injection of strength is…gentleness.

Fighting for your joy.

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Now that I’m at the most joyful I’ve ever been, (there’s a difference between happiness and joy,) I’m asking: Will I have to fight for my joy again?

Criticising your creative process? No baby, no.

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This is how I see my creative process now: Focused. Swift. Centered. Turned on. What changed? Nothing. Just my perspective. So, everything.

How to not give a shit (even though you really do) and be kind about it all.

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Love from the inside outward. Some people will take offense to your healthy priorities. Others will take your loving example and love themselves even more.

Easing someone’s suffering…without suffering. Is it possible?

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Do I have to feel your pain in order to help ease your pain?

And, if I guard myself against your suffering, am I less useful? If I want to detach from your pain, am I less loving? If I think, “I’m glad I’m not going through that”, am I cold hearted? If I’m grateful for my strength or good fortune in comparison to your so-called weakness or misfortune, does that make me…just secretly horrible?

Why we relive the painful times over again. (For a good reason.)

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You can see ten more reasons it was a blessing. Or the REAL reason you were hurt. Or, best yet, you can now see how truly powerful, loving, loveable, immaculate, and awake you really are.

Feeling old wounds is the soul’s way of looking for what else can be healed. You’re not a loser for feeling it again, you’re…soulfully thorough.

Purification. Pain. Passion. And marrying your soul. Or…How to tap your deep creativity.

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If you want to tap into your deep creativity — the profound, unbridled, genius, life-infusing, widely useful and healing kind of creativity, then purification is essential.

Now, to get through such purification, you’ll need passion. You already know what that is. Fire, heart, big vision.

How do you know when your creation is finished? Like, you’re done working on it and it’s time to let it go.

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Hey! AIM for perfection, but it’s out of reach. And hey! That’s okay, because you’ll probably land on something beautiful…maybe your work is really finished. It’s time.

Freedom worships inquiry

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If you want to live according to the pulse of your soul, to the depth of your desires — to be FULLY ALIVE THIS LIFETIME…then you must devote yourself to be a QUESTIONER.

Why these rules? Why am I feeling this way? WHAT am I feeling? Why did they do it that way? Why can’t I? Why are we doing it this way? Where are we going? Where else has this been? Where does it go when I’m done with it? Why not?

There was a time when You lived to protect Me. (A poem attending to the oppression of women and the universal longing for communion. For starters.)

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There was a time when You lived to protect Me.

Staying fluid, jealousy, and are women too hard on themselves? A Q&A on Womanhood

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Well, WE ARE SOCIETY, so it’s not an “us against them” scenario. Women are setting and managing their own expectations to a huge degree. So let’s start by looking at how we treat ourselves — how women treat themselves as private individuals, and how women treat women. Let’s start with us.

The German magazine Allegria, asked me some good questions about WOMANHOOD. We could have talked for days…

Leave room for mystery

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…and by that I mean…there isn’t an explanation for every situation or a solution for every problem. But some of us seekers love to dig dig dig until we find the reason— the past life, the astrological alignment, karma, the energetic pattern.

All those forces weave their way into any manifestation — wins and heartbreaks, illnesses, and miracles.

12 Things I know about real deal healers

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And by “necessary hard work” I do not mean: slogging on something you don’t really want to be doing in the first place. This is not about sucking it up or faking it.

By “necessary hard work” I mean: FIRST you commit to something that lights you up, pulls you forward, truly inspires you — the career, a relationship, a project (and YOU can be that improvement project, by the way.)

Current Pain or Departing Pain? How to assess your agony.

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There is the pain you feel because it’s deep in your being, in real time, working on you. And there is the pain you feel when it’s ready to be released. Just when you thought you’d purged it all, your body lurches with one more hurl to make sure the toxins are good an’ gone. That last lurch can catch you off guard. Where did that come from?

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