LIVE PRESENT BLOG
Making mindfulness accessible, relatable, and relevant for everyday living.
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Trauma Response: “Fight” as Meaningful Action
A new era has begun and one thing is certain…it is urgent that we take care of ourselves and each other as best we can.
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Crush the patriarchy
Building our muscles together to crush the patriarchy…
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Feels Like Glory
Tell me….what feels like glory to you these days?
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A Tribute to Friendship
Reflections on friendship inspired by one of my best…
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Mind-body Maintenance
When it comes to wellness, what is your routine system maintenance?
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Setting a Place for Grief at the Holiday Table
Dear Grief,
You are welcome here.
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Walking the Labyrinth of 2021
We all find ourselves in a labyrinth right now…. a labyrinth of pandemic proportions.
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Enhancing our access to intuitive wisdom
Everyone has intuitive wisdom; although it may speak to us in different forms.
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The beautiful mess: Honoring our place in the cycle of growth
All of the petals are falling off and leaving a beautiful mess on the ground… where are you in the growth cycle?
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What stays, and what goes?
We can be active participants in creating the life we want moving forward.
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Finding the pony
How can we “find the pony” in the current COVID-19 pandemic?
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Hard decisions and intuitive wisdom
Full confession: For much of my life, I have felt plagued by indecisiveness.
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Exploring movement as metaphor
There are two ways to contemplate life. One is as though nothing is a metaphor. The other is as though everything is a metaphor.
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Release
The fall season is full of metaphors for release. It’s the perfect time of year to take your meditation practice outdoors beneath the trees.
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Parenting our inner child
How we parent our children is a reflection of how we parent our own inner-child.
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Taking care of our hurt
What if more people took responsibility for healing their own hurt?
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Social justice matters
Why my work matters to me.
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Power of intention
Exploring the power of intention in manifesting what you want.
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Letting go of perfection
This one word can have a much stronger and long-lasting impact than many of the other words in our human vocabulary.