Allowing Ourselves To Receive
Part 4 of Embracing Support series When was the last time you allowed yourself to receive support? Hopefully your experience of receiving support was positive. Though I’m thinking of times where people will offer their unsolicited advice, and even with the best of intentions, it does not feel like help or support. But this is […]
Asking For Support
Part 3 of Embracing Support Series Is asking the hardest part, or being honest with oneself that you need support? I think both could potentially be equally as hard because both can bring up shame and unworthiness. But what if you never asked for support? Sometimes we can receive it out of nowhere, without asking, […]
Presencing and Naming What We Need
Part 2 of Embracing Support series As I lay in bed thinking about this week’s blog, I realize how privileged I am. A quick explanation; This is the second part of a four-part blog series around embracing support. This week is about presencing ourself to be able to name what we need. I am privileged […]
Seeing Oneself Through Honesty and Love
Part 1 of Embracing Support series In her book,”Radical Acceptance; embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha”, Tara Brach rights: “For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much–Just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work–to […]
Use Your Lion Heart to set intentions this new moon!
July’s new moon happened on July 28th and is in the zodiac sign of Leo, the lion. This new moon has particular potency when it comes to energy. Not only because it is in the sign of Leo but also because it is in a trine with Jupiter in Aries. This trine adds a cloak […]
Remembering our Personal and Universal Nature
Ajahn Chah, teacher to Jack Kornfield, says: You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these […]
Rituals: bringing us into our wholeness
I was annoyed with myself, and even beginning to feel angry at myself. I was in my 20s and had been living in New York for a little while. I wanted to travel and nourish my spirit with adventure! I wanted to go solo and create a pilgrimage of meaning. As a dancer, […]
The value of slowing down in a busy world
Slowing down. What does this mean? How can we do it? What benefits might come from it? As I attempt to integrate back into “normal life” after co-facilitating an emotional, yoga, healing-centered retreat this past weekend, I find myself trying hard to hang on to the slower pace that I experienced. Is […]
Remember Who You Are
Have you forgotten your significance? In the face of great loss, perhaps you feel you can’t make a difference? Or, perhaps when faced with fear, you don’t feel as if you are worthy, capable, or brilliant enough? Let me tell you something, YOU ARE ENOUGH. Period. I know that you may have heard this saying […]
Honoring & honing our source of strength
Where do you draw your strength from? Are you having difficulty finding the strength to carry on? Feeling that what strength you do have isn’t enough to make the changes you envision for yourself and the world? As the season changes here in the northern hemisphere, I feel both the exhilarating energy that warmer weather […]