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“The world is a book. People who don’t travel read only one page.” ––St. Augustine Note: For more current writings, musings, and journeys of a different kind, join me at my [...]

No time to slow down? Q: You talk a lot about the importance of slowing down. But I don’t have time to slow down. I need help clearing fast! How do I effectively use your programs when I [...]

If I were to summarize in the simplest way what I do when I’m space clearing a home, it would be this: I shine light on stuck places and bring them back into balance. In other words, I find [...]

“Instead of thinking about the myriad negative feelings you want to avoid and the myriad things you can buy or do in service of that, think about a single organizing principle that is [...]

As we wake up to the fact that this noise and stress is not who we are, we can make different choices that align with how we want to feel. This interview first appeared at DailyOM here. Today [...]

Experience how the neglected areas of your home and life light up and flourish when they are regularly tended and cared for. This interview first appeared at DailyOM here Today we are speaking [...]

“…an old No Fear ad campaign says, ‘the one who dies with the most toys still dies.’ But instead of heeding this simple wisdom, we continue filling our pockets with rocks [...]

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” –Mary Oliver No, I don’t plan to talk about Moveable Feast – the book in the photo – which I’ve never [...]

[To remember]: At its essence, it means to call back all of our ‘members’ — those aspects in ourselves that we’ve neglected or have scattered or gone missing — and return to the truth of who we [...]

It all began with a wonder question posed by my husband as we contemplated what to do with the cluttered bookcase that takes up an entire wall in our 1875 home: Why would we keep a book? This [...]