I am writing you, after spending an extended weekend, with some of the most important women I have in my life. These women (me included) play wholeheartedly within the range of friendship – meaning – we love big, we hold each other up, we push a little, we…
A few days after Thanksgiving, I felt a knock on the door to my heart, I opened the door, and there stood a stranger. I invited this said stranger into my house and realized that the stranger wasn’t strange at all, but quite familiar – it was my…
So Hum The definition of a mantra in Sanskrit is combination of two words, manas (mind) and tra (tool), literally translating as “a tool for the mind”. It is a word or sound repeated again and again to help aid in meditation. A mantra can be anything that helps you stay…
My new morning ritual is to start my day with the spiritual teacher, Anne Lamott, an author, grandmother, and Sunday School Teacher. I love her because she is a great storyteller. In one of her stories she says, “If you want to help kids fall in love with…
Growing pains are described as crampy, achy, muscle pains that occur in the legs of preschoolers or preteens. To me, theses pangs seem kinda unfair because right when you are on the precipitance of ‘getting it’ and/or understanding who you are and the life you have come to…
July. The apex of summer. Shorts are short. Temperatures are hot. We are everywhere and nowhere. We are laughing, loving, and (re)connecting. There is much movement around us and within us. Everything is happening right now and all at once. There are so many moving parts.Things, people, and places…
With the onset of spring, a new season, and new vibrations…we started planting seeds and perhaps some of those seeds are now becoming dreams. A dream can give our lives a purpose, a trajectory, a path to walk and this vision begins with action- real deal concrete steps…
The spirit (I believe) is something otherworldly or divine that takes over the body and usurps the brain when we are completely present to the moment at hand. Its possession is an opportunity for us to step aside and get out of our own way. And to get…
I have been waiting for this week for a while now as it’s an indicator of how much has changed since last year. In the “before,” Matt and I were headed on an Amtrak train to Providence, Rhode Island where one of my besties was eloping and had…
Did you ever have one of those days when you woke up and thought, “I am feeling good and I am going to continue to make myself feel better?” This was me last week; I cut my hair, I moved my body a bunch, I had acupuncture done…