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Category Archives: transition
Enough is enough – finding ourselves worthy
Enough is a mindset. It’s the result of saying “yes, and …” rather than “yes, but …”. It’s relinquishing the obsessive desire to compare ourselves to others and come up short. It’s turning inward with curiosity and wonder, and rediscovering who we are. It’s an act of radical self-acceptance.
What calls you?
This is the article I wrote recently as a guest blogger on the wonderful online gathering place for our tribe, Roots of She. Â I’d love to hear what calls YOU — please declare it loud and proud in the comments below. love, Â amy What Calls You? You take steps in one direction, originally…
Feeling my way in 2013
Like many of you, I’m beginning this new year with a word.  This word is a dristi for me, a centering place for my energy and a reminder of who I’m becoming as I unfurl new aspects of myself. It’s  e m b o d y. As in, live into.  Know by be-ing.  Feel, rather…
Unfurling with Abby Kerr
When I met Abby Kerr on Twitter I thought, now THIS woman has a vocabulary and she knows how to use it. (Word-girl that I am, I was utterly charmed). In addition to being uber fantastic in her craft (she’s a brand editor who helps online entrepreneurs…
Unfurling with Amy Kessel (yup, me!)
What’s unfurling in you? How do you get out of your own way? Who are you becoming? I adore this interview series. I hope you do, too. The questions I ask here are big, thudding, heart-openers. I realize that. My…
Unfurling with Jamie Ridler
I believe … in celebration. In finding the courage to be who we are meant to be. Our bodies are wise. There is room for you, all of you. In you go The cocooning phase of unfurling is more uncomfortable for some of us than others. Those who are closer…
The Unfurling Series : A Round-Up
Molly Mahar. Tanya Geisler. Rachel Cole. Amanda Farough. Dyana Valentine. Andrea Olson. Julie Daley. Ronna Detrick. Jennifer Louden. Kate Courageous. 10 women dishing on their delicious, sometimes-thorny, fascinating versions of unfurling. 10 perspectives on what it is to look closely at that thing you’ve been cocooning until now. That thing that’s finally coming out and…
Unfurling with Molly Mahar
I have a sneaking suspicion that a world of fulfilled joyful women equals radical acts of goodness, widespread emotional and physical health, creative expression, equality, and core level compassion. Molly Mahar is unfurling again. And while the others were big, this one is huge. She’s about…
Be your soul’s own gardener: caretaking your unfurling
As we all learned in the first grade when we planted sunflower seeds in Dixie cups, plants thrive when their optimal growing conditions are met : when they have enough sun, shade, nutrients, water and space to grow. Imagine a grove of succulent ferns. Or a meadow of clover and wildflowers. These plants live…
