What began as a harrowing experience transformed – and elevated – my life. Here are the words Lucie D’Alessandro uses to describe her healing journey, one year after being diagnosed with breast cancer: Awakening. Amazing. Wild. These words are not generally associated with…
Category Archives: intentionality
Creating 2012 Your Way: Inspiration for Your Year-End Process
photo by kaykayblaisdell via Pinterest Endings and Beginnings I love the newsletters and blog posts my colleagues and tribeleaders put out this time of year: so many reflections and suggestions on ending one year and beginning another. So many creative and thoughtful ways to process where we’ve been and where we’re headed. And loads of…
Anatomy of an unfurling
It begins when it is time, not before. You’ve rested enough to be restored, nourished, prepared. You can throw off the covers now; you’re ready to wake up and start the day. Unfurling is the exquisite process of growing into ourselves. We unfurl again and again, in each of the corners of our lives. We…
Where’s your focus? Life wisdom from yoga class.
In yoga we use a technique to keep from toppling over in balancing poses: we focus on a spot somewhere in the room. Having our eyes trained on something – called our dristi, Sanskrit for fixed gaze – helps us find the solidity beneath us and the just-right arrangement of muscles and bones to stay…
Recognizing What IS, Not What WAS
Recently one of my favorite teachers delivered a life lesson that smacked me in the head. It was not Heraclitus, who famously said The only constant in life is change.   It was my 10 year old son, teaching me a similar lesson about flexibility and stagnation. He reminded me of the danger of behaving as…
Good Enough – Lessons From a Recovering Perfectionist
I recently gave myself a perfect opportunity to display my perfectionist tendencies – a month-long nutritional cleanse and detox program. Let’s just say I got a B minus in terms of following protocol and doing all the practices suggested. And my grade makes me flush with pride in the same way A’s once did, in…
Stop the striving and allow for thriving
I have a bit of advice for you today, busy entrepreneurs, creatives and do-gooders, but it may be hard to swallow: Go for what’s easy. Strive to find the sweet spot beyond effort and striving. Lean in. Stop doing. Surrender. Cultivate ease in your life. Wait, you say. I have a To Do list a…
Client corner: New beginnings from Michelle Medina
Michelle Medina was born blind and with a severe facial cleft, has courageously undergone 66 surgeries in her 25 short years, and firmly believes she can make the world a better place. She dreams of helping orphaned children and abandoned animals, of writing a memoir to help others with disabilities, and of creating a loving…
