Category: Relationships

Do you know what guards the truth? Yesterday my friend Michael shared something that put all the pieces together inside of my head. In Taoist temples there are two dog-lions …

Satiating spiritual starvation   I, like almost all of us, am an orphan. I’m not a biological orphan, but an ancestral orphan. While I can trace my bloodlines back to France …

I seriously broke someone’s heart almost twenty years ago. I did not do this gracefully or kindly. I had fallen in love with someone else and the transition was abrupt …

For the past four years my companion has been a ball python named Shima. I bought her when she was a tiny baby and now she is almost four feet …

A few days ago, I took my ex-boyfriend’s 12-year old daughter into New York City to go shopping. I knew it would be a fun trip to see the City …

You are by yourself? You don’t even have a dog? The man selling me maple syrup at the rest area stared at me, incredulous. I had just shared with him …

“Did you hear what Joe said about Fran? Can you believe it?” “I’m furious at her! I feel like she did this on purpose.” “I can’t figure out what to …

Sometimes we must simply walk through the flames to reach the other side, for they are purifying and strengthening, even as they burn through our egoic defenses. If we’ve tried …

Last year I made a huge move from Austin to New York City, guided by my intuition and a tiny bit of insanity. While I’ve loved my time in Harlem, …

I just finished facilitating a workshop called Open Heart, Open Perceptions, where I taught a treasure chest full of tools for how to keep our heart open no matter what. …

If you’ve ever read any spiritual or self-help books (if you’re like me you probably have a small mountain beside your bed waiting patiently to be read) you know that …

Living in the intimate depths with self and others is a journey that invites us to slowly and lovingly adjust to swimming in deeper waters. ~ From Relationship Blog #1 …