The Practice That’s Guaranteed To Lighten Your Load

“All of that came from my basement!?” She pointed to the mountainous pile we accumulated in her entry during the course of our editing session. We’re used to the scale of donations that so often leaves people’s homes, but she was flabbergasted. “Why didn’t I do this sooner??” She exclaimed. “I feel SO much LIGHTER!” …

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A Short Cut To Center

  One’s spiritual center and a Birmingham, Michigan, Coney Island Restaurant would appear to have nothing in common. The first is an intangible–one’s source of higher knowing, tuned into through calm and focused stillness. The other, a restaurant at which you might grab a hot dog, greek salad, and chicken finger pita. For me, the…

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Shine Or Shiny?

There’s a poignant scene in the Barbie movie when Margot Robbie’s character, Barbie, sits on a bench next to an older woman. Barbie is dejected, crying, her shiny blonde bubble having been burst by existential wonderings, which neither her Dream House, her Ken, or her coif can nullify. The older woman beside Barbie exudes the…

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Your Power To Attract

There’s a print hanging in my house of rows and rows of colored dots, each one captioned with a tongue-in-cheek moniker. Were I to count, I’m betting each color is represented in equal numbers. But sometimes, I’ll look at that print and a red dot will catch my eye. I’ll read the name, something like…

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Your Rising Sign

  It feels cliche to talk about rising. The image of the phoenix is played out. We get it. We fall and (hopefully) we get back up. Hurrah. Except anyone who has truly felt themselves rise understands the hype. I’m a perfectionist, which means I’m perpetually aiming at doing things beyond even the best of…

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Enough To Elicit Contentment

Enough To Elicit Contentment

  “I just had to send you a message,” a client we’ll call Marla wrote to me. “Normally this time of year I’d be feening to shop for myself and other people. Like I had to stay plugged so that I wouldn’t miss major sale announcements, but instead I feel totally unbothered!” We’d worked with…

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Recognizing Progress Is Making It

Recognizing Progress Is Making It

  We live in a highly produced culture. We’re bombarded with shabby befores snapping to swoonworthy afters. The upgrades are instantaneous, only adding to their impressiveness. We expect our personal transformations to happen as rapidly. We want the results now. We want our current discomfort, our hang-ups, and our emotional turmoil to be dispelled in…

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Trying Grace On For Size

Trying Grace On For Size

  October was my mom’s birthday month, and if there was one quality (aside from joy) that she possessed in spades, it was grace.  She didn’t try, she just was. She didn’t force or manipulate, she allowed things to ebb and flow towards and away from her without ever seeming too troubled about their direction.…

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What Will You Renew?

  August, with its straw hat and freckles, has taken its final bow for the year. In its stead enters September, which, with its return to routine for so many families, gives one that sense that life is once again standing at attention with its glasses on. The mornings are crisper, the daylight shortens, but…

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