As we face the daunting tasks of our lives…from figuring out how to balance a meaningful livelihood with our personal sanity and quality family time to facing the environmental, economic and political challenges on the global stage…it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and even powerless. Often, when I’m talking with people about the changes they want … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Personal Transformation
What’s it gonna take?
When the newsfeed and broadcasts get flooded with images and stories of violence, oppression, injustice and pollution…do you ever think to yourself… “What’s it gonna take?” What’s it gonna take for us to change our ways? To realize, once and for all, that this culture of disconnection and disrespect is a dead end street…to wake … Continue Reading →
Becoming Whole
Two years ago the dentist told me my tooth was dead. It turns out that teeth are living beings and, just like people, they can die. And, just like people, when they go they leave a big gaping hole where they once lived. This is a story of healing and transformation of release and surrender. … Continue Reading →
Holiness
I had this idea of wholeness Like I was supposed to keep it all together Like I was supposed to figure it all out and fix it… To hold on to all of it That there was shame in losing any part of myself But life and healing demand release… The letting go and loosening … Continue Reading →
Turning Inspiration into Action (with Julia Butterfly Hill and Daryl Hannah)
Do you ever get all fired up after listening to an inspirational TED talk or watching a documentary about this pivotal time we’re living in? Do you get passionate and inspired and feel the energy of change moving through you? And then, in the face of your daily tasks, what happens to all that enthusiasm? … Continue Reading →
Burning Through the Fear
Do the mental gremlins of doubt and self-criticism keep you from living the life that you feel called to? When we get inspired to try something new and bold in our lives the first thing we usually encounter is FEAR! What will my friends and family think? Will I be able to pull it off? … Continue Reading →
Angelina’s Dramatic Procedure: an act of proactive prevention or misguided intervention?
Hollywood superstar, Angelina Jolie, recently went public with the news that she underwent a voluntary double mastectomy with the intention of preventing breast cancer. “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each … Continue Reading →
Those last 10 pounds…
Did you know that toxic chemicals lurking in your body literally block your ability to lose weight? Whether you’re 50 pounds overweight or just struggling with those last 5-10 pounds, chances are it has more to do with these pesky chemicals than it does with your willpower or which diet plan you’re using. If you’re trying to … Continue Reading →
Rest and Relaxation: Essential Ingredients for Detox
While on my way to Florida earlier this month I realized that there’s nothing like airport security to give you a nice (and humorous) close up view on our hectic modern lives. Quick! Everybody take off your shoes and belts and jackets… empty your pockets and get your ziploc bag full of miniature bottles of … Continue Reading →
Don’t Let Environmental Toxins Get You Down
“People now living on this planet assimilate more hazardous toxins in a single day than they did in an entire lifetime only a few hundred years ago.” – Daniel Reid The Tao of Detox More than 70,000 brand new chemicals (that never existed on Earth before) have been created and released into the environment since … Continue Reading →
