So often my clients are not struggling with making their dreams a reality – they are struggling with knowing what their dreams and passions are to begin with. If you’ve been through therapy for a while, it can be easy to get caught in a ‘healing grind’ and forget to focus on joy, passion and delight. These posts should help!
Drama-Free Passion
When I think of passion as portrayed in culture today, it often has a dramatic tone to it. There’s “finding your passion” – the one, true career that will fulfill your life’s purpose. There’s “living with passion” – which seems to involve “never settling” and “not putting up with mediocrity.” There’s “bringing passion back” to […]
Passion = Preference + Presence
When you decide you want to experience more passion, more delight, more joy in your life, what do you do? My answer to that has usually been vowing to do more passionate things (usually quite undefined) and increase my self-care activities. Often, that led to living the exact same way I did before making the […]
Finding Your Purpose, the Drama-Free Version [podcast]
I spent years agonizing over finding my soul’s purpose, with an unspoken (and maybe unconscious) belief that, once I found it, small cartoon woodland creatures would appear and sing to me as I began my happily ever after. So, so not how it went. I always thought finding your purpose was the holy grail, that […]
The Five Love Languages
Last November my friend came to stay with me for a couple of days, a short stopover on her trip halfway across the planet to see her family. I adore this woman, and have missed her greatly since she moved fifteen time zones away from Los Angeles last year. To prepare, I cleaned my house, […]
She Blinded Me With Science: Why I Hated The Intention Experiment & Why You Might Love It
Years ago, my friend was struggling with her faith. She was part of a Christian church, but was never quite settled with it – there were so many questions that plagued her. She found a huge amount of solace and peace in Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ, so much so that she asked me […]
The Best Decision-Making Tool Ever
It’s the third and final phase of our dream list creation process, and for this phase we need the best decision-making tool ever – The Body Compass, developed by my teacher, Martha Beck. Watch the video below to learn it, then scroll down for steps on how to apply to your dream list. What I’d […]
What’s Skydiving Going to Do for You, Really?
In 2011, I traveled alone to Paris and spent a week exploring this amazing city, followed by a week on a transformational African safari with one of my heroes and a group of women who would eventually turn into the sisters of my heart. Doesn’t that sound so impressive? Doesn’t it all sound like something […]
Are You Ready for an Adventure?
When I finally felt like I was done with my ‘healing journey’, I spent a fair amount of time wondering what in heck I was supposed to do now. I’d gotten used to trudging through healing, processing old wounds, struggling through old crap. When it was over (not that I’m “healed”, but the trudging was […]
A Near Death Experience and the Westboro Baptist Church
Anita Moorjani was in stage 4B of her cancer when she was rushed to the hospital, suffering from full-on organ failure. It was then that she had her near-death experience (NDE), which would change her life forever, and which, of course, is the subject of her book, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, […]
What Do You Desire?
Recently I began taking a class on developing and deepening my intuition, and have been diligently practicing, because it’s so much fun to do. And, over and over again, no matter what I ask, I keep getting the answer, “what do you want?” or some variation of it. It seems as if the unseen is […]
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