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This is a photo of my wedding shoes. I wore them just once on my wedding day 29 years ago and I’ve kept them neatly in this box ever since. Why? Because these grass-stained relics remind me [...]

“Look for the order within the chaos… Moving into a new house has created a sort of upheaval and chaos. About a week ago I decided to take one drawer in the kitchen and make it [...]

The word “labor” sounds so… um, painful. And exhausting. Yet, we spend most of our days unconsciously laboring and efforting. Laboring at the computer, laboring over what to wear, [...]

The inspirational piece below by Pema Chödrön is, in a nutshell, what I would call clearing. Allowing your feelings to arise  – without resisting them, or judging them, or fixating on them – [...]

It’s been almost five months since I launched my second online course on DailyOM – a 365-day journey in letting go called A Year to Clear What’s Holding You Back! In a culture of [...]

As I see it there is clearing and there is clearing. There is the old paradigm of clearing clutter that makes us feel bad when we fail and sets us up for disappointment, again and again. And [...]

Gliding through life without friction or resistance. That’s one of the ways I experience spaciousness. What does Spacious feel like to you? I posted this on my Facebook page recently to go [...]

It makes my heart sing to receive letters from readers sharing how they have applied some of the principles from Your Spacious Self to turn their home and life around; and discover, to their [...]

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”–Eleanor Roosevelt The other day I posted this question on my page on Facebook: What is one thing that scares you? Is it possible to lean into [...]

“Sometimes I forget to eat lunch. So, 3:30 arrives, and I attack an infant-size hillock of greasy takeout. I inhale it, scarcely breathing, a condemned man with minutes ’til dawn. Two [...]