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 …

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. I’m a mama twice and a step-mama once, and I’m making shaker lemon pie.

Shaker lemon pie got me thinking about life giving me lemons, and how sweetness can make nearly any lemon more palatable.

In this video, I’m talking about these things, and eating a lemon… Hope you enjoy it!

Dear Clients-
I’m writing to you collectively, but I’m thinking of you singularly. I’m thinking of each of you and the experience that I have of working with you.
You are brave, and smart and strong, and so willing to bring about change in your lives.
You have this gift that you want to give the world. And in each case, it’s something the world deeply needs, and you are bringing it.
This world needs more of that.
Letting me work with your energy is an act of trust. It’s also …

Gina Loree Marks makes me laugh a lot on twitter.

We once spent most of a day replacing key words in famous poems with the word “taco”.

This flies completely the face of the fact that she is a terrific shiatsu practitioner and also a brilliant writer. I asked if she’d write about being present in the body, and she gave us this gem of an article about why we have trouble being present and the importance of coming home.

I used to joke that if my body was a temple, mine was a temple of doom.

My body does not look perfect. My body does not act perfect.

Certainly, by every standard I’m shown on TV and in print, my body is a before picture.

But…my body is pretty freaking awesome. It’s so much easier to love it than to hate it.

Let’s kick off a week of body love, a week of celebrating the temple, a week of understanding how to work with our bodies to move forward in our lives!

Today- I’m going to teach you how to love your body, regardless of what it looks like or feels like.

Do you ever have that feeling in the morning, the  I just need to get through today feeling?
Do you see all the hurdles between you and a moment you look forward to?
Is this moment a weekend? A vacation? A moment when the sun goes down, and the dishes are done and you can pause before your next act of living?
And then perhaps,as you go about your busy day,  a little bomb is dropped.
An anger, a frustration, a sadness, a realization?
Something you must think about, but you don’t have time, …

This is a many-part series about How to Safely Handle Emotions.
There’s a look I see in women’s faces, sometimes in men too. It’s the face of control.  Perhaps it’s the tension in the jaw. There is something about the set of the cheekbones.
When I see this face, I see someone who is very good at keeping it together.
So Good at Control
We are very good at controlling our emotions.  Until we’re not.

We are very good at hiding our anger, frustration, angst, anxiety.  It’s like putting 10 lbs. of misery in a …

Nothing says you love me like a flat-screen TV from Wal-mart, honey.
Or those extruded plastic bits that you just spent $40 on and were made by people living in poverty some place where we can’t see them.
Or that you left the house at 4 am to fight crowds to buy stuff for me that I will open on Christmas, have a moment of happiness and then forget about by New Year’s.
Thanks. Wow, I feel so loved by your consumerism.
Instead…
This year, buy local.
Buy from artisans.
Buy what will bring you joy and …

I’ve been working with Westwind Farm Studio to develop recorded guided meditations on subjects like Love, Abundance, Confidence, and Courage.
We had the idea of taking the personal divine messages that I receive for my clients, and turning them into meditations. Then we thought: what if I just asked for divine information on each subject, and we incorporated it into the meditation?
Spark! Good Idea!
I sat at my desk, cleared my mind, and brought myself into a deep meditative state.
Then I asked, “God, tell me about Love.” and then I just …