by jlouden | Dec 21, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
The first breath you draw in the New Year ushers in complete forgiveness for yourself: every mean thought you ever had about your talent, your body, your potential, dissolves. You are so light, you float off the bed. The reason you were born, the thing the world aches...
by jlouden | Dec 8, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I was raised in a home where the holidays were celebrated in… stuff. For my parents, children of the depression, their prosperity existed to be shared, through buying us lots and lots and lots of gifts. Imagine an artificial tree (it was the 70’s) with...
by jlouden | Nov 22, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
In your youth, letting go is naive. You do it – blithely, even carelessly – because you do not know the costs. Gain some years, years pockmarked with goings you did not want, years dented by goings you did everything you could to prevent, and letting go...
by jlouden | Nov 15, 2011 | Favorites
Michele and I just finished teaching the 3rd round of TeachNow – a comprehensive program designed to transform both the inner & outer paths of teaching. We’ve now had over 280 students take the program. Grinning big about that I am! This time around,...
by jlouden | Nov 11, 2011 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I haven’t read much about the significance of today’s date 11-11-11. What I have picked up is that, in some lineages, it signals the possibility for immense healing. That today is an invitation of sorts. Hmmm…. I asked myself: What if today,...
by jlouden | Nov 8, 2011 | Favorites
I am called to lead you into sun drenched wholeness. I called to paint a picture of you free from shackles, shame, blame and ill health. I am called to model a whole-body yes to whatever life brings. I am called to help you find and live your heart’s desire. I am...