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How to Stop The Cycle of Over-Providing
My definition of over-providing is giving more than is sustainable for the wrong reasons. You might also call it over-giving, over-delivering, or being the world's breast. Or as Jeanne Witcraft said on Facebook when I asked for examples of over-providing, "Nourishing...
Savor & Serve July LoveLights
What feast did July bring to your table, what treasures were you gifted, what challenges did you allow to make you stronger? Take a moment to look back and bow to the thousands and thousands of wonders that make up just one month of your precious human birth. Please -...
I Want to Interview You
I want to interview you, like my friend, the amazing meditation teacher and writer Susan Piver, interviewed me for her fantastic Open Heart Project. If you want to learn to meditate, please do sign up! The Basic level is free. I wanted to share the questions Susan...
Taos + Love
I'm in Taos hosting my annual writing + yoga + self-kindness + miracles retreat at the creatively super-charged Mable Dodge Luhan house. I love so many aspects about leading the same retreat every year - getting to be with precious students, the luminosity of Taos,...
Ways to Channel Fear and Sadness
When something pierces your heart with pain, you can channel your fear and sadness by: Being with what you're feeling Sending loving kindness Doing something It's tempting when something horrific like the shooting in Denver happens to follow the thought "not me, not...
Stop Skipping, Get Sticky to Get Unstuck
Is there something bugging you: the unfinished manuscript, the half-launched service project, the aching desire to feel good again? Something you want to get unstuck and get going? Perhaps you've skipped. The skip gets us all. The skip is the bypass. the work around,...
Can You Let Yourself Be Supported?
That's me, 2 years ago, getting ready to jump out of a small plane. My daughter is right behind me. We're celebrating her 16th birthday. That guy behind me? I'm strapped to him... very snugly. I'm not going anywhere without him. Which is why I found the entire...
A Profound Idea that Can Change Your Life
Photo by the amazing Tracey Clark I loved WDS this year. Last year, I was pretty "meh" about the whole thing but this year, I was deeply nourished - by the beautiful job Jolie and Chris did, by the speakers, by new connections, and by me. Because I stayed engaged. I...
Retreats are Your Birth Right
I am back from crafting, with Marianne Elliott, Tracey Clark and 64 amazing women, a miracle of a retreat. I'm a bit loathe to tell you how wonderful it was because I don't want you to feel left out or that you missed something. I hate when people host an event and...
When You Don’t Want to Belong
Photo By Lillian Louden-Mosio When you don't want to belong, it might be because you aren't belonging to yourself first. Allow me to tell you a story. Lately, I've been choosing to not spend much time online. Sometimes that wonderful soup of tweets, Facebook updates,...
When Your Heart Aches, Do This
Offer yourself the sacrament of new beginning. Put any story that you are the one and only human exception to ::we all make mistakes, we all get hurt, we all need help:: on the fire of liberation. Light the pyre. (You are the exception to many rules but not this one.)...
You Are Getting Very Sleepy
How I envision as my personal poppy field Remember Dorothy in the poppy field in The Wizard of Oz? She is so close to Oz that she can see it - she is so close to getting what she wants - and suddenly, she just has to. take. a. nap. In the movie, the magic poppy field...
You Can Be at Peace
Photo by Carla Blazek, owner of Zenamoon. This post is dedicated to my daughter who graduates from high school today. To your freedom Lilly baby! There is a Sufi teaching story about a caged bird. The bird was well looked after by her owner, fed and talked to, and her...
The Danger of Triumph
I love that the world is full of stories of "I fell down, and down, and down, and then I got up and look at what is possible for you!" The famous video of Arthur healing himself through yoga is a heart soaring example. I think of that video, that man, all the time....
What if You Knew?
What if you knew whatever is it you think you need to know to do whatever it is you want to do? and What is it you think you need to know? Can you name it? Would you know it if you saw it, tasted it, touched it? I am not trying to tie you in knots, pinkie swear....
Create Your Own Writing Retreat
I'm writing this from day one of a four-day solo writing retreat. I've been alone for about 24 hours. I have:: cried (that happens to me on retreat, like emotional catching up) napped, meditated, chanted (thank you Eric), danced, wiggled around on my yoga mat,...
Call Yourself Beloved
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. This is the only poem I can recite from memory. *** It's what we are all hungry...
Mastermind Your $100 Start-Up
At our Brain Trust retreat two weeks ago, Michael Bungay Stanier asked Eric, Molly, Michele, and Mark to talk about Chris Guillebeau's great new book, The $100 Start-Up. Michael came up with a handful of spot-on questions and we came up with more than a handful of...
Who’s Influencing You?
And are they helping you get your art done and out in the world? Helping you do more great work? Influence is a profound factor in our health, well-being and success -- it can make the difference between creating deep happiness and making real progress on your desires...
Cake Boss
Yesterday my girl Lilly turned 18. I planned on baking her cake. Carrot. No nuts. Lots of frosting. I also planned on spending time in quiet reflection. I imagined myself walking pensively through the woods, finger on chin, recalling the last 18 years while harps...
I Smell A Wombat
Last week was our annual Brain Trust retreat, and it was a doozy. I mean that in the best possible sense of the word. I feel liberated. Seen. Supported. Lightened. As Mark Silver said in his beautiful recap of the retreat: "These five people are among the brightest...
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