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Savoring in the Face of It all
Can you feel it? I know you can. The world is pressing on you - the suffering, the uneasiness, the restless "get me out of here, make it safe again" feeling. People are worried, edgy, afraid. For good reason. How do you savor life in the midst of all of this? Here is...
“What do I have to contribute? I’m no one special.”
Yesterday late afternoon, I made a video about how I savored and served the world yesterday in the face of the Japanese disaster. I didn't have the energy to write a post until this morning but the forums were buzzing at Savor & Serve Cafe with "What do I do?"...
Serve Yourself (Perhaps on a Bed of Baby Lettuce)
Meditating this morning I flashed on my upcoming Kripalu retreat Stepping into your S-hero's Journey and how I want to start planning it... I started to wonder: How will I help women step into their power, their savoring, their serving? (It's the first time I've lead...
Union, Carrot Juice and Your Gorgeous Unique Heart
Shazaaaaam! My last post about letting go of boxes, the box of who I am or who think I'm supposed to be, strummed a cord of freedom with so many of you. We see how we get in the way of savoring and serving - for entire moments at a time (insert wry grin). Here's what...
I Didn’t Tell the Whole Truth or Why This is Called an Experiment
In my last post, I said I was afraid of this new mission because I'm afraid if I serve more, I'll have to serve everybody and poof! I'll spontaneously combust. Pile o ashes. Unbeknownst to me, that was not the entire truth. There was something far more real beneath...
How to Be Skillfully Empathetic
How do you engage with changing the world – or even with listening to NPR – without becoming swamped with emotion or overwhelmed by feeling? Here is what I’m learning so far.
The Sexy Desire Drenched Embarrassment of Taking a Stand
Ever feel sheepish taking a stand, declaring what matters to you, saying you want to help save the world? Me, too! And don’t miss the end of my video and be prepared to be startled.
The Savor and Serve Experiment Begins
Today is the first day of my new adventure, The Serving and Savoring Experiment. It’s a memoir of one year in which I explore the sweet spot where my desire to savor life meets my desire to serve the world. In which I ask "Can knitting together savoring & serving...
Holy Selfishness
What is calling to you, what is yours to do in the world, is calling to you clearly. Clearly! What is calling to you to do is not one inch to the left or right, it's not over there behind the potato chips - it's exactly in front of you. Yes, that flash, that gut pow,...
Savor the Girl Effect
Open your Heart to Girls Around the World
Don’t Believe the Mean Voices
Here is how it seems to me this morning: Life is here, offering itself to you. Are you going to take it up on its offer? I am. I will forget I said that in just a moment, because fear will kidnap my heart and ride away with my desires. Until I remember again. I do so...
Are You Paralyzed or Incubating?
How do you discern the difference between incubation (listening for what wants to come next) and paralyzation (over thinking anyone)? Step one: don't think there is ONE answer to this question or that you can know FOR SURE what the best perfect thing to do is. Wanting...
Desire is Not Demure
Desire is not well behaved. Desire is wild. Desire is demanding. Desire is insistent. As I wrote in The Life Organizer, Desire is the flow of life we yearn to swim in, the urge to be one with Spirit, and the way to stay in touch with this flow is through knowing what...
You are Called
If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage." Dear Rumi, he knows how to get to the heart of the matter, doesn't he? If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage. What is Rumi talking about? Near as I can tell, he's...
Are you Too Intense?
All my life, I've heard, "You are so intense" and "You have so much energy" and "Does everything have to be so deep with you?" All my life, I've heard, "You are so silly" and "You are so funny, you should do stand-up" and in the last 17 years, "I bet you are the most...
The 3 Permissions to Teach
Sounds a little like a dish at a Chinese restaurant... Ah, yes, 3 permissions, very delicious. Very good. We serve it flaming with truth and basted in..." Okay, I'm a little slap happy this morning. That probably isn't funny. But the video, especially the place half...
Can You Save the World?
I've been having conversations with friends in the last month about my new clarity. I've actually been saying, "I want to save the world." Try saying that to an old friend in the grocery store at 9:30 on a Sunday night. (Lois, you were so gracious.) I get that "save...
Elephant in the World’s Living Room – Let’s Try Again
The last post I published was a very important one for me - and shortly after it went live, my server failed and 36 hours of data was wiped out. This has never happened before - yes, I'm on a dedicated server. Then, even weirder, we couldn't locate a copy of the post...
How to Take a Digital Sabbatical
I'm taking a Digital Sabbatical for the month of August. Also a coaching-talking-traveling-teaching sabbatical. Picture me bouncing around my studio with happiness and glee... and fear and trembling. Fear and trembling. What am I afraid of? The idea that is stalking...
What Your Fantasies are Trying to Tell You
My farm fantasy post generated fascinating comments here and more over at Facebook. Deanne pointed out, Living the farm life is damn hard work, too. It just sounds simpler than whatever we are doing at the present moment. Exactly, Deanne! It just sounds simpler....
You Do Not Have to Earn your Weirdness
Us creative types often feel like misfits, outsiders, weirdos. Our whole entire lives. Because we feel this way, we might decide that unless we do something with our misfitness - preferably something brilliant - all of our suffering and not fitting in has been for...
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