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“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.  If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things – this is the best season of your [...]

Do objects have bad juju? You know, like the beautiful heirloom ring that doesn’t feel quite right? That antique mask you got really cheap at the consignment shop that smells funny?  The [...]

I was on the radio the other day with two of my author colleagues (and two of the sweetest hearts around) Don Miguel A Ruiz Jr. and HeatherAsh Amara. In this lively one-hour conversation we [...]

Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment, experience the feelings without labels, beyond good  or bad. Welcome them. Invite them. Do anything that helps melt the resistance. –Pema  [...]

I’ve had the privilege of giving many talks, teleclasses and webinars recently around the release of my new book. One of my favorites was a interview I gave on the subject of taming our [...]

Wondering what a one-minute practice of conscious gratitude might look like, I posed it as a question to myself one morning before getting out of bed. What popped up was the directive to “thank [...]

It has been a week of epic proportions. Hurricane Sandy delivered a massive punch to all of us on the east coast. With the winds gusting upwards 80 miles an hour, amazingly, our home did not lose [...]

What happens when you scroll down the series of phrases below? Which ones elicit a sensation of any kind, like… a twitch, eyebrow rise, shallow breathing, a nervous laugh, sweaty palms, [...]

“Effort is required to become, but what effort is required to be?” As a make-things-happen kind of girl, taking charge is deeply encoded in my DNA. Taking a step back when all of my [...]

As one of the authors of the book Pearls of Wisdom, I was asked some really good questions by blogger Rev. Alysson Szabo about my chapter in the book called “Homes are Like Us, They Respond [...]