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Video Blog Summary: Confusion is a Natural Part of Change So for many of us, 2020 was a confusing year. But confusion isn’t always bad. Sometimes it indicates that we are changing. In fact, confusion is a natural part of change. When you've been seeing things a certain way for a while, you become accustomed to seeing them that way. And then something inside you begins to change, and you begin to see things in a different way. So your life is oriented around that familiar way

Video Blog Summary: Stop Editing Yourself Have you ever had something to say to someone and held it back? Or edited what you’re saying, they are comfortable with it. I wonder if you are protecting people from what they might feel if we say what your heart is guiding us to say to them. Our culture is largely based on everyone feeling comfortable. People want to be comfortable when they hear what we have to say. They want our advice, but only if they’re comfortable with it. And

Video Blog Summary: Modeling Openheartedness Life is so much more meaningful and enjoyable when your heart is open. If you're hearing this blog, you have undoubtedly experienced the freedom and beauty of having your heart wide open. And having your heart open is contagious. It invites the people you interact with to be open. The world desperately needs people to model having their hearts open and to invite others to open theirs. And yet there seem to be relatively few people

Video Blog Summary: Acting According to Your Ethics Ethics are the values and principles that govern your behavior. For this blog, I’m going to refer to ethics as the thing that your heart tells you is right for you. My suggestion is to care about yourself enough to align your actions with your personal ethics. If something feels off to you, simply don’t do it. Not out of fear or because it’s what you’re not supposed to do, but rather because you understand that when you act

Video Blog Summary: Ask For What You'd Like As we approach the holidays in this most unusual year, what do you want to happen during the holidays? And, are you willing to ask for it? There’s often a pattern to hope the things we want will magically happen. So we don’t ask for it or create it. This is especially true with families and romantic relationships. Often leftover from childhood, we believe that being in our family will just meet the things we want in family relations

Video Blog Summary: Speaking your truth and genuinely expressing what you feel is natural. We only have difficulty with this when we withhold what we're prompted to say. We withhold things because we are conditioned to believe it's not safe to freely express what comes to us. It’s like the thought bubble in a cartoon comes to us, and we keep it to ourselves. When we don’t speak our truth and freely express our feelings, our throat chakra becomes blocked and does not function

Video Blog Summary: Things continue to be challenging as COVID cases increase and we continue to socially isolate. One of my favorite skills in challenging times such as these is to see yourself as moving toward something you would like to have for yourself. You may say, “It’s kind of tough to move toward things with everything shut down these days.” I hear you. But keep in mind that there may be things you can do inside yourself to prepare for when things open up externally.

Video Blog Summary: Two friends and I were doing a healing meditation to send energy for people to unify after the election. Shortly after we began meditating, an idea occurred to me to send energy to help people unify by understanding each other’s perspectives. And then I immediately heard a voice that said, “That never works.” OK... I realized that understanding perspectives quickly gets into our way of seeing things that involve our social and political views. It made sens

Video Blog Summary: I think we sometimes lack gratitude due to a misunderstanding that stems from a misperception of our relationship with life, God, spirit, or the universe. If you don’t understand the nature of the relationship with life, how can you have true gratitude toward it? Our life thrives when we have a clear partnership with life. Life and you create things together. You set an intention, life helps unfold that intention, you step into it, life supports you, and s

Video Blog Summary: Embracing Uncertainty We never really know what’s going to happen. Sometimes we create a story to tell ourselves that we know what’s going to happen. Then we feel safe again. But we never really know. COVID and its social isolation have put the fact that we don’t know what’s going to happen in our face. We don’t know when COVID is going to end or when we can freely plan our lives again. So, we are left sitting with the uncertainty of life. What if we just

Written Blog: Allowing Yourself to Feel Can you feel it? The days are getting shorter, and the time change has added to that. To me, it feels like things are closing in. And visually, things are closing in with the increasing darkness. In my tradition of the medicine wheel, we call this the time of introspection. The seasonal conditions of darkness are encouraging us to look inside. And this year, it’s extra special with the prospect of a COVID winter. Some of us barely emoti

Written Blog: Unconscious Intention When people refer to intention, they are mostly referring to conscious intention. When we offer an intention, it interacts with life and opens doorways to create things in our lives. But even when we are not conscious of all of our intentions, we are still offering intentions all the time. And these unconscious intentions are often undermining our conscious intentions and creating unfortunate outcomes. Our unconscious intentions have an ene