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Stories and learnings from my own personal journey into deeper compassion, healthier relationships and nonviolent living. Please feel free to leave comments and questions on any posts; I love being in conversation with you.

Category: Inner Work & Discernment

Inner Work & Discernment
What Do You Need These Days?
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]As my best friend and I were recently bemoaning the state of the world and checking in around our ...
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choice
The Freedom to Choose
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feelings
What is Alive in You?
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Does your nervous-system sometimes get so flooded that it’s hard to stay present to yourself and others? Do ...
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feelings and needs
Feeling Our Feelings
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Mississippi River
acceptance
Grounding in the Power of Presence
As I was cleaning up my study this weekend, I came across journals I had kept when I was in college many years ago. Browsing ...
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capacity building
The Art of Capacity Building
We’re halfway through discussing the four domains of the Change Spiral I’ve developed to describe how we humans grow and change through repeating patterns over ...
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dropping judgments
feelings and needs
4 New Moves for Dropping Judgments
If you’ve been feeling weary or disheartened and stuck in sticky emotional dynamics, I have a story for you this week. Last weekend, I found ...
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Open-hearted living
emotional strength
What Is Openhearted Living?
I began thinking about the places in my life where I show up half-heartedly, instead of full-heartedly and then about those areas where I live ...
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feeling used
emotional alchemy
How to Feel Your Feelings
I’ve come to appreciate the bittersweet relief and freedom that come from allowing emotional weather to pass through me, instead of getting stuck inside of ...
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feel lonely
belonging
Why We Feel Lonely in a Crowd

Have you found yourself wondering if you’ll ever find “your people”? I’ve been hearing about this a lot recently … People feeling deeply lonely ...

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Inner Work & Discernment
What Do You Need These Days?
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]As my best friend and I were recently bemoaning the state of the world and checking in around our ...
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choice
The Freedom to Choose
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feelings
What is Alive in You?
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Does your nervous-system sometimes get so flooded that it’s hard to stay present to yourself and others? Do ...
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feelings and needs
Feeling Our Feelings
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Mississippi River
acceptance
Grounding in the Power of Presence
As I was cleaning up my study this weekend, I came across journals I had kept when I was in college many years ago. Browsing ...
Read more
capacity building
The Art of Capacity Building
We’re halfway through discussing the four domains of the Change Spiral I’ve developed to describe how we humans grow and change through repeating patterns over ...
Read more
dropping judgments
feelings and needs
4 New Moves for Dropping Judgments
If you’ve been feeling weary or disheartened and stuck in sticky emotional dynamics, I have a story for you this week. Last weekend, I found ...
Read more
Open-hearted living
emotional strength
What Is Openhearted Living?
I began thinking about the places in my life where I show up half-heartedly, instead of full-heartedly and then about those areas where I live ...
Read more
feeling used
emotional alchemy
How to Feel Your Feelings
I’ve come to appreciate the bittersweet relief and freedom that come from allowing emotional weather to pass through me, instead of getting stuck inside of ...
Read more
feel lonely
belonging
Why We Feel Lonely in a Crowd

Have you found yourself wondering if you’ll ever find “your people”? I’ve been hearing about this a lot recently … People feeling deeply lonely ...

Read more

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