Your Most Important Asset
“The best stock market you could ever invest in is yourself.” – Byron Katie From an early age, most of us have been taught to improve ourselves. We’ve heard that in our families and especially in...
View ArticleA Letter to Serena Williams – It Begins with Love
In the world of news, this is no longer current especially with hurricanes and tornadoes showing their fury. However what happened two weeks ago at the U.S. Open in my home state of New York still...
View ArticleHow I Neglected My Own Happiness for a Toxic Relationship
To me, she was perfect. When she walked, it was like the crowds split and no one else in the world mattered. Not only was she beautiful on the outside, but she was beautiful on the inside. Every day I...
View ArticleHow to Trust Yourself
Is there a decision you are struggling with? Is there something you want to do but you just are not 100% sure if you should? If your answer is yes, how would it feel if I gave you permission to make...
View ArticleWould Your Authentic Self Get a Tattoo?
“Untreated substance abuse is often treated as ‘cool’ and as sort of a counterculture badge of honor, a way of proclaiming, ‘Look out, dullards, I’m still dangerous.’ Likewise, sobriety is sometimes...
View ArticleThe Blades
I often think about kneeling on the ground to pray. I don’t do it. But I have the feeling of it. It’s hard to be strong all the time. Knowing that nobody can help you. People who are strong, are strong...
View ArticleMy Chemotherapy
“Never give up.” I had heard this phrase a lot of times but she made me understand what it actually means. I met her in engineering college. I still remember her wide smile, sparkling eyes, and her...
View ArticleHolding Both the Magic and the Madness
He was magic, truly. And I loved him something fierce. Highly empathic, deeply intuitive, a natural born shaman with the capacity to do great work in the world. He could manifest anything out of thin...
View ArticleThe Last Judgment
In the new age “spiritual movement” of well-meaning cons, egoists, and opportunists, there is an indoctrination where the victim of poor behavior or bad choices is shamed. I was recently told I was...
View ArticleAre You Taking the Right Kinds of Risks?
Making the right kinds of mistakes? Hopefully, you can answer with a firm, “yes.” Because, guess what? If you aren’t giving yourself and others the allowance to take risks that could result in failure,...
View ArticleThis Is a Little What Silence Looks Like
This is a little what silence looks like. Hold tight, while I try to describe what it feels like for us. The us who have experienced the silencing of abuse. We willingly held your hand as you escorted...
View ArticleOne-Minute Life Hacks
A) WAITER’S PAD HACK There are two uses: BUSINESS MEETING: Everyone pulls out their fascist Moleskine notebooks and you pull out your waiter’s pad. First thing that happens is the alpha male in the...
View Article21 Promo Ideas. Simple, Grand, + the Tried N’ True.
When you post client testimonials on your blog, include a reply of gratitude. Commit to a year-long experiment and document it. Talk publicly about what you’re working on: “I’m writing this book”,...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Meaning
What is meaning? And why do we need it? Can we live without meaning? Is meaning or the understanding of it possible? Is it necessary? Is it individual? Or might meaning hold a shared consciousness...
View ArticleFor the Girls Who “Run Away” from Relationships
For the girls who run away from relationships… You are also known as the the girls who follow your heart. I know sometimes you don’t see it that way. I am here to remind you… you are NOT a failure. You...
View ArticleLove Your Life! You’re Worth It!
I love my life. It wasn’t always like this for me. Years ago I would sit in meditation feeling unsettled, knowing my life could be different and that I could be a lot happier. Often I would be left at...
View ArticleWhat to Do If You Are Secretly Unhappy
You have the job. You have the husband/wife. And you have the 2.5 kids, the white picket fence, and the retirement fund. Or whatever scenario you’ve been working towards for a long time. But now that...
View ArticleStop Being so Strong!
When something disappointing happens, we often buy into the assumption that we are being tested and that passing the test depends on pushing through and persevering. Many of us do not give ourselves...
View ArticleA Question I’m Often Asked: “How Can I Make More Time for Self-Care?”
People often ask me, “How do I make more time for myself? How do I put myself first?” And when I hear that question, I think: OBLIGER! Obligers think that everyone struggles with this question, but in...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does…
“It doesn’t mean what you think it does.” I say that to myself … all … the … TIME. So… What does it really mean? Hmmm… A silent way of reminding myself people have their own sh&! going on I don’t...
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