Most people I know question their beauty and judge their body. So they hide it with baggy clothes, beat it with fitness, or starve it with diets. But, even if you change your body’s appearance to what you deem preferable, the only thing that can change your relationship with it is trust. Trusting that your […]
We all want to be chosen, but choosing ourselves can be riddled with judgment and uncertainty. We get a break from this internal scrutiny when someone else approves of us. This distraction offers belonging… but WITH CONDITIONS. How do you know when self-love overrides the habit of satisfying outside expectations to get love from others? […]
When you love your work it’s easy to mistake it as play. The danger, in our present times of 24/7 on-call home offices, is you can become isolated from unstructured exchanges with the world. You lose touch with where you BELONG. And, a bitterness starts to fester. Belonging leads to intimacy, inwardly and outwardly. And, […]
Where Do YOUR Guardian Angels Show-up? Have you ever been shocked into a sense of belonging? When unsolicited help suddenly shows up right when you need it, it’s a peaceful reminder that you must matter. When this kind of grace unfolds, it can make you believe in angels. During COVID, I didn’t ride my motorcycle […]
Have you ever experienced love as a concept? You know you’re loved. You feel gratitude, inclusion, even safety, by being in the inner circle of people’s lives. But you feel like you don’t really belong anywhere specific. You’re a free spirit who dances with the wind. As a single, solopreneur, woman who rides a motorcycle, […]
I got my first vaccine yesterday. Relieved to be half way to freedom, I left Mt. Sinai Hospital with a swift and energized stride. Off to Riverside Park to workout with my next client. As I neared the park, about a half mile distance, I started to feel an urgent need to sit down. I […]
Storytelling in a maze of art. A true story about love, duty and delight. In a search for one’s Self. All eight storytellers of The Courageous Messenger Collective were intended to gather at the Gary Marshall Theater in Burbank, CA. to speak to a live audience and be streamed on-line. Due to COVID we were […]
How do you keep internal peace under external pressure? There are times that your mind analyzes a situation with clarity, yet you’re still triggered emotionally. You can feel trapped in your reaction and blind to a peaceful resolution. Your mind and body are misaligned. The information your mind gathers and the story your body […]
In these isolating times, we’re all asked as spiritual beings to have gratitude for our aloneness. Those alone for the holiday adjust to take delight in less or we’d crumble. Creativity and kitchen traditions kept me on track as the holiday neared. But when the holiday countdown started, the absence of grounding human contact triggered […]
An animal on its back with paws folded up by its shoulders disarms a fast track world. We stop to breath in its self immergé, wishing we too could open ourselves so freely. I’d find my Rottweiler Hilda in this submission. On a hot summer day, in an empty cool bathtub, she’d delight in her […]