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Video Blog Summary: It's the time of harvest! In order to complete this cycle of the medicine wheel, we have to claim the value we have been developing in ourselves. This video explores the value you have created this past year (even if you did not realize it). Now I am going to assume it has been an interesting year for you. With COVID, quarantines, and social distancing, our ways of socializing and interacting have been severely altered. But make no mistake, you still devel

It was the evening of Friday the 13th. The coronavirus was not going away. They closed the schools in the state of Oregon earlier that day. It was dusk and starting to snow. The weather app on my phone forecasted snow and cold temperatures for the next three days. My phone calendar showed no plans for the weekend. Everything about that moment felt like life was closing in on me. I had felt that feeling before. It was the feeling at the beginning of a silent meditation retreat

Video Blog Summary: I describe our tendency to evaluate ourselves through external, culturally-based standards. In this video, I invite you to reconnect with your core values and then reevaluate your value and worth based on those values, as well as how you actually impact the people and aspects of the world you encounter.

Video Blog Summary: This video is an exercise that I created in a storytelling workshop by Bernadette Jiwa. It speaks about my relationship with my spiritual teacher, Bart Anderson, and how I am fulfilling the charge that my teacher gave to him. It is also distinguished from other videos on this channel in that it is not edited at all. It therefore includes more pauses, "ums" and "likes", and hopefully feels like a story being told authentically.

Video Blog Summary: Division occurs when a part of us is not in alignment with another part of ourselves. I explore how we become divided from our passion, purpose, and truth. We can integrate these qualities back into our lives to reduce conflict and allow natural harmony with the various aspects of ourselves.

Video Blog Summary: I discuss how to access the natural healing quality of true compassion. I differentiate compassion, in which we empathize and feel with compassion, from that which is more conceptual and intellectual. I also challenge the listener to drop down into the depth and vibration of true compassion to connect with the person you are interacting with.

Video Blog Summary: ​Michael Hoffman interviews Dr. Jane Guyn about the dynamics in couples around sexuality and the challenges that can arise with it. Jane discusses her clinical practice and upcoming workshop, both of which are intended to guide couples to establish fulfilling sex and intimacy and to overcome obstacles. Dr. Jane Guyn's website can be found at https://www.howtofixmysexlife.com/

Video Blog Summary: Michael Hoffman interviews Ann Coughlin about her work over the past twenty years, helping people access their natural psychic abilities. Watch Ann clearly and practically describe how to unfold your innate intuition in terms that you can understand. She also introduces her upcoming workshop.

Video Blog Summary: Michael Hoffman discusses the inevitability of encountering resistance when you undertake something worthwhile. This video offers clear guidance on how to move through your resistance by embracing it.

Video Blog Summary: In this video, Michael Hoffman discusses the importance of insisting that people treat your open heart with respect. We ultimately choose how people treat us by what we allow and disallow in our interactions with them.

Video Blog Summary: I discuss the importance of being aware of when you are open and when you shut down. This allows you to choose walking with your heart open and being connected to life

There were some tough lessons at the Summer Solstice Ceremonies this year. Challenging and painful, but critically important. Several days into our gathering, Ann Coughlin and Eve Costello conducted a series of ceremonies that guided me deep into the beauty of my heart. After each successive ceremony, I found myself to be more and more open and sensitive. When I returned to sit around the fire between ceremonies, I noticed even the most subtle forms of sarcasm or cleverness