Crawl Into Heaven: Create a Nourishing Bed
I adore our new bed. Every night is like I’m crawling into heaven. For starters, getting a new mattress was a significant upgrade after our big musical-chairs makeover last summer. I still [...]
Wearing or Weary-ing? Connecting With Clothes – Part 1
What do you think of my shoes? Here’s me trying on a pair of clogs in a tourist shop in Holland. How can anyone resist climbing into these things? They’re ridiculous. All joking [...]
What is Clearing, Exactly?
Feeling and witnessing a task or a stressful situation in the present moment does a magical thing: it releases stuck energy, quiets the mind, helps us detach more easily, and creates openings [...]
Gift Ideas That Are Not Things
It’s that time of year again – the annual scramble to order, buy, wrap, ship… Tell me, does anyone out there find all this acquisitive crazy-making fun?!? And how does one honor the [...]
One Minute Clearing Practice
Below is a little homemade video I made a while back. It offers a very super simple clearing practice. Watch it when you can close your eyes for a minute or two. To which area of your home were [...]
Taking A Year to Clear Works Its Magic
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 [...]
Changing the Way We Look at Clutter and Clearing
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 [...]
Saying Yes to No
“I live by the truth that ‘No’ is a complete sentence.” –Anne Lamott, O Magazine. Here’s another excerpt from Your Spacious Self with a simple practice that will help you learn [...]
How to Accept Things As They Are
“It just ain’t possible to explain some things. It’s interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it – take it for what it is [...]
