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Parenting by the Fuel Source of Gratitude
People often ask me how I survived the early years of motherhood when our firstborn son woke up between ten to twelve times a night and needed more than the breast to go back to sleep. Part of what...
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What Is the “Right” Choice?
One of the root causes of anxiety is falling prey to the ego’s tendency to divide life into polarities – good/evil, right/wrong, black/white – in an attempt to control the outcome of our choices and...
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Anxiety: Ambassador of Wholeness
“Dreams come in the service of health and wholeness.” – Jeremy Taylor, author of “The Wisdom of Your Dreams” A few weekends ago I attended one of the most inspiring, nourishing, revelatory workshops of...
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Watch for the Spark
Note: As always, if you’re not a parent please apply these concepts to your own childhood and also how you attend to your own inner self/child today. Because of my passion for and writing on the topic...
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The Truth about New Motherhood
Over the past several years, many of the women who I helped midwife emotionally across the threshold of the marriage transition have birthed themselves as new mothers. And just like our culture doesn’t...
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The Uncorked Heart
At the center of ourselves, at the very center of our body and our soul, lives the heart. When we allow ourselves to stay in the flow of the feelings of life – feeling sadness when it reaches out like...
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The Call to Turn Inward
“Jung observed that the Aboriginal people of Australia spend two-thirds of their waking lives in some form of inner work… We modern people can scarcely find a few hours free in an entire week to devote...
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The Imposter Syndrome
“When I do something well and have success, I feel like it’s a fluke.” “I walk around feeling like a fraud. I don’t trust that I’m honestly capable of doing the things that I do.” “I have this nagging...
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The Fear of Making a Mistake
The fear of making a mistake and the fear of failure live at the heart of what keeps many people stuck. Whether you’re struggling with relationship anxiety, career stagnation, depression, or...
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Is My Partner the One for Me?
I feel like I’m settling. This doesn’t feel right. I often feel irritated with my partner. Doesn’t that mean I’m with the wrong person? When I think about leaving, I don’t feel anything at all. How...
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Trust Life
The doing arises from the being. We’re all born of mother: the sea, the lakes, the waters of the amniotic fluid in the womb. We long for actual mother without understanding that it’s the great mother...
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The Escape Hatch of Perfection
There are so many ways that we can avoid pain. We can choose denial. We can self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. We can fall prey to fear/ego’s insidiously convincing beliefs that to turn inward is...
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“What If I’m Too Young?”
The spike of the week from my clients and readers who struggle with relationship anxiety comes in at: “What if I’m too young? What if I haven’t met my match yet and I’m just deluding myself to think I...
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Risk Aversion and Anxiety
I’m standing on the edge of my life, as if on the shores of a cold but beautiful lake. I want to dive in but I’m scared, only the fear doesn’t sound like fear as much as doubt, anxiety, uncertainty,...
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The Life You’re Meant to Live
Somewhere along the road of childhood into adolescence, a belief is transmitted that says: Follow the roadmap that culture presents and you will find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This...
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An Interview with a Course Member
Lake Phoksumdo, Dolpo, Nepal Over and over again, the feedback I receive from my 30-day course participants is that one of the most impactful and life-changing aspects of my courses is hearing from and...
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What If I Make a Mistake?
When my boys were learning how to write, they would freeze in their tracks for fear of making a spelling mistake. Their perfectionist tendencies were not a surprise to my husband and I – after all, the...
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Leaf in the Wind Syndrome
“I’m always comparing my relationship to other people’s relationships. Why does everyone else look like they’re so in love?” “I have such a hard time making decisions. Sometimes I can’t even decide...
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What is My Truth?
On the last round of Open Your Heart a participant asked: “So if I don’t trust these anxious thoughts then what can I trust? If my truth was really that we are not right for each other then how would I...
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The Best Piece of Advice I Can Give You to Reduce Your Anxiety
Our era has been called the Information Age, the Technology Age, and the Digital Age. But it could also easily be called The Age of Anxiety, for anxiety is rampant and can manifest in so many ways:...
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