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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 – [...]

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

  “Don’t let them think that we’ve broken down; that we’ve cracked up. We’ve merely dropped leaves for further spring.”–Rumi.     Yesterday I [...]

“We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.” –Pema Chödrön, “Start Where You Are” If you read my recent posts Stepping Into Stillness and Serving Life, I left you hanging with the [...]

Enjoy these spacious contemplations to inspire a **clear** new year: “What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, [...]

“I always feel that somehow you have to reframe that bad feeling – so that you see it as a doorway to liberation, as an opening to the vast blue sky.” –Pema Chödrön   [...]

Being gentle sounds so simple on paper, yet I can think of many ways that I can be unconsciously unkind to myself. I even have a name for my not-so-gentle side: “Hilda.” As in [...]

  “Take an interest in your pain and your fear. Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment, experience the feelings without labels, beyond being good or bad. Welcome them. [...]

Question from a student: “I was wondering, when you began clearing did everything in your home feel like it needed to be cleared?  This feeling is so overwhelming at times.  I physically [...]

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. –Pema Chödrön I often use the metaphor of the weather to teach a key principle of letting go I call spacious detachment. It [...]