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If you spent your New Year’s Eve alone this year, I have a few things to say to you. If you’re a successful single woman who spent her New Year’s Eve alone this year, I have a few things to say to you. If you wish you hadn’t spent your New Year’s Eve alone this […]

Let’s be honest, failure is scary. Just the idea of failure is scary. Combine that with the fact that our brains are programmed to avoid scary things, and we have a tendency to avoid  failure at all cost.  That is, unless we override that programming! …how do we do that? With a conscious thought! But

It hurts my soul to admit this, but I think I have disconnected from one of my favorite things: humor. How did this happen? When did I become an adult and stop laughing so much? Why did becoming an adult mean I had to stop laughing? I grew up surrounded by laughter. When I reflect

As a type 8 “aggressive” personality in the enneagram who, in my former life, mastered the art and science of the “make it happen” philosophy, I find myself typing these first few words with slight trepidation and a bit of nostalgia. In the same way a recovered addict reminisces but never actually wishes for the

At the core, we all just want to live our truth out loud. We want to be ourselves. We want to express ourselves as the spiritual beings that we are while honoring the bodies we are in.  What’s that famous thing Jesus said? That’s right: The truth will set you free. John 8:32 This journey

The world is experiencing a global pandemic. Many people have seen large drops in their investments. Some people have been laid off. Many fear for their safety and the safety of their loved ones.  I want to offer a thought that may be controversial, but carries peace if you let it. This thought is: Nothing

If you’ve listened to spiritual podcasts or read mindfulness articles not unlike my own, you’ve probably gathered that an underlying assumption is that enlightenment is a good thing; that this is what we should all want. But is it? Do we want that? True freedom leaves no assumption unquestioned, even (and especially) the ones that

One of my favorite things about science is that it’s constantly evolving. We humans are so smart (sometimes too smart for our own good). We’ve come up with thousands of elaborate stories about how everything in the universe works.  We use math and physics to describe the motion of objects and particles. We use chemistry

Emotional pain is real. Emotional pain affects us in ways that are very similar to physical pain. It hurts. And it sucks.  But whereas physical pain is relatively easy to pinpoint and fix, it’s really hard to get at the root cause of and then try to even figure out what to do about emotional

What’s your definition of “freedom”? When you think of the idea of “being free,” what does that mean to you? Have you thought about it? A common definition many of us share is that freedom is the ability to do what you want when you want. Schedules might initially seem at odds with this definition.