When we are having shifts in our psyche, in our way of being, even positive shifts, especially positive shifts, junk shakes out. Bits of dark flotsam and jetsam slip out. This stuff feels awful.

You can do stuff to help you. Read on…

See, you put -licious after anything and it sounds so much better.
So, the other day, I was talking about how I like money, and how it took me a long time to like money and to like me.
And I was thinking about my boat.
See, I’m boat pregnant. Meaning, sometime in the next 18 months, I will bring forward a boat. It will be a boat with at least one bedroom. And a shower. And a wee kitchen. And it will be floating on the Columbia river.
Boat …

Havi Brooks taught a Shiva Nata class on Friday evening at the new playground, a beauteous space.
Here’s Havi, shiva-nata-ing:

So, the idea to Shiva Nata is that you completely occupy your brain, so you can’t think about whatever you typically think about. You just focus on your arms doing their thing and then epiphanies happen.
If you’re not failing, it’s not hard enough. If you’re doing it perfectly, it means that there is room to think.
What happened to me
Havi asked us to think of a word to support us as we …

Meet my friend, Dave
I have a friend who is a vintage collectibles dealer. This is a great thing, because he finds beautiful stuff and he has a generous heart, so he’s always finding things for his friends that he gives away.
So, I am the new owner of a beautiful little yellow pot that’s perfect for warming milk for my latte.
He had a session with me recently to figure out how to take the next step in his business.
In my meditation, I saw him at a thrift …

What did I learn? A helluva lot for my business.
Here’s my 8 or so a-has.

Hey everybody!

I hope you’re doing well. I was twittering this morning about the ways I use my intuition. I made a list of the top 21 ways I use it…I think I could have gone on for miles! I want to know the ways you use it.
I use my intuition to:
1. Help bring about positive change in people’s lives.
2. Help pets and their people get along better.
3. Have a close and steady, positive relationship with my kids, so that they grow up to be happy adults leading …

I love my partner, Brian. I love that guy.
And I love a lesson that he recently taught me.
Here’s an extreme close-up of the guy:

Brian is polite and nice to nearly everyone. And he’s incredibly, consciously loving to me. So, he packs extra rain gear when we go camping (because I will forget mine). He makes me coffee before he goes to work in the morning. The man does my laundry. And every day, I am reminded that he is most often thinking of me and what I need.
It comes …

So, do you have those moments where it just seems very hard to focus on your own stuff, especially the hard stuff, especially the shameful yuck?

Yeah, me too.

Do you wish you had a free, relatively easy and painless way to handle the yuck?

Yeah?

Well, step right up. Don’t be shy. Have I got the deal for you…It’s called your imaginary therapist and you already own it!

Brave squirrels rock my world. They are awesome.

How did they get that way?

And are Portland Hipsters a bad influence on the wildlife?