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, […]
The Five Love Languages
A Return to Love
Have you ever seen Scrooged, the late 80’s twist on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Bill Murray? Or It’s a Wonderful Life? Or even Elf? It seems that so many Christmas movies have the same ending scene – a character who had become bitter or hopeless finds the love in their hearts again, and it […]
When You Need Some Loving-Kindness
Do you ever wish you could do something to help heal the world – right now? Or wish you could raise your own energy from something funky to something more loving? There’s good news – you can, and it’s about as easy breathing. Check out the video below for a quick intro to the practice […]
A Mystical Experience
I’ve always had the ability to sense the Divine. I realize that might sound a little crazy, but for me it simply is how things are – obviously there is some kind of God/Source/Divine Love, because I feel it. When people tell me they don’t believe in God, for me it sounds like “I don’t […]
Forgiving Yourself for Loving an Abusive Parent
A year and a half ago, I planned a pilgrimage to my father’s grave with the intention of repeatedly stabbing it, and perhaps finally letting go of the last of my anger towards him. It didn’t happen that way – the extraordinary week prior to the pilgrimage released the bitter remnants of my anger, and […]
Open Hearted Giving and Receiving
As this is being published, I’m visiting with my dear friends in Mexico. I wasn’t really sure I’d be joining them on this trip, as I’m committed to living within my means and paying down credit card debt, and a flight to Mexico during spring break didn’t seem like it was going to be ‘within […]
A Shame Interrupt for “Being Broken”
I just had an intuitive reading. It was unexpected and incredible. I received an answer to a burning question I’ve had for nearly two years, and the answer – though so beautiful – left me feeling completely ashamed. Like I was broken and still had to fix myself. Like all the glue I have applied […]
Be.Love.
It is Love week of this Advent series, and I invite you join me in committing to increasing the amount of love in the world this week. A couple of years ago, I took the “Calling In the One” course with a friend of mine; one of the best insights they shared was that each […]
Reclaiming Advent: Transformative Love
Last week I was determined to come up with some profound answers to the questions on hope and expectation, and share them with you today. It didn’t happen. My own week of living in the questions was beautiful, and I finally realized that nothing I can say would be any more interesting than whatever experiences […]
You Are Loved
You are loved. You are loved so completely that if you chose to let it all in, you might have to spend the rest of the year weeping with the intensity of it. Let me guess – you are thinking that there is no possible way I can say with any authority that this is […]