Have you ever heard the White Horse Story? It’s a metaphor for life, and in a nutshell, it goes like this: A farmer and his son lived alone because the wife/mom had died. (How awful…) One day a beautiful white horse showed up at the farm and the farmer and son got to keep it. (How great!) As the son was riding the white horse he fell off and broke his leg. (How awful…) It was a time of war for the village where the son and farmer lived and the military needed all the young men to come and fight; but because the son had broken his leg and could not go, the farmer did not lose hi ..read more

The below provocation is an excerpt from my book 52 Weeks of Relief: Uplifting Provocations for Stress Reduction and Self-Care. Years ago I heard a Unity minister, Phillip Pearson, ask the question, “Are people safe on the pathways of your mind?” Wow. What an important question. Particularly because I believe that what we are thinking, and therefore what we are holding in our hearts, is at least as important as our words and actions. Actually, I think that our thoughts in some ways are more important because they eventually lead to our words and actions. I know s ..read more

Do you ever do this? Do you ever decide if you’re “allowed” to feel tired or yucky based on if your brain can come up with a “reason” you “should” feel yucky? Or give yourself a hard time, or at least feel annoyed, if you feel crappy when there’s “no reason” to feel crappy? I caught myself doing that yesterday morning and as I was telling a friend about it, I noticed that my brain (and its inner committee ?) likes to divide things into three distinct pods based on how I’m feeling and the circumstances for each: I wake up and feel good – (Brain’s interpretation: “Yay, that feels goo ..read more

Does this ever happen to you? I woke up with a total food hangover. The night before, Chris and I ate at a restaurant commonly accused of using monosodium glutamate (MSG) in lots of their foods. Granted, MSG makes my food taste totally wonderful and salty and just the right spiciness. But… it also keeps me awake for hours, makes my sleep light and weird when I finally do fall asleep, and makes me really puffy in the morning. (Nice!) Then when we got home (already late) Chris made us each a brownie hot fudge sundae which I decided to eat Mindfully, fully basking in and enjoying ..read more

I adore my kid. And… sometimes he drives me nuts. To be fair, at 18-years old and a senior in high school getting ready to graduate in a few weeks, there is a VERY good chance that I drive him nuts way more often than he does me ?. A cool thing happened on Sunday after my family and I all met for Sunday brunch that reminded me (again!) about how powerful it is when we shift ourselves first. And that sometimes when we do that – weird, cool, beautiful, magical-seeming shifts can happen with those around us. Let me set the stage a bit: there were 8 of us meeting and we w ..read more

There are two bumper stickers I really like. One says, “Visualize whirled peas.” That’s just hilarious. I saw it when I was first learning about consciously creating our experiences through visualization and the Law of Attraction, and it’s a take-off of the “Visualize World Peace” bumper sticker (which I love too!). Another one that I particularly like says, “Mean People Suck,” mostly because it just makes me laugh. And because I like when people are nice. I do. I like when we are kind to one another. Somehow it doesn’t seem like it should be that hard to do. Until I remem ..read more

It’s Women’s History Month. And there is scary drama on the world stage. Which makes it a perfect time to honor your own Divine feminine. Every one of us (female, male, non-binary) have beautiful qualities of the Divine feminine within us. The world is in glorious need of us calling forth and using those qualities in bigger, brighter, more powerful ways. I am more and more sure that when we do that, when we bring forth the healing power of our own Divine feminine, that each of us can make a difference in helping raise the consciousness of this beautiful planet more than we ever thought possi ..read more

February is supposed to be all about celebrating the love we share with our special person. I’m all about that if we have someone. I love finding just the right card that tells Chris how I feel about him, because I’m all about words! And I love receiving flowers or candles from him, because he’s all about giving little gifts. You may or may not have a “Special Person,” and you may or may not exchange cards or gifts or anything else on Valentine’s Day if you do. Either way, what I REALLY want you to do, not just Feb. 14th, but all month, is to treat yourself like you are your own “Special Pers ..read more

If I could give you one gift, it would be to look at yourself the same way you look at others in your life that you love or hold dear. I am deciding to gift that upon myself for all of 2022! Me loving me in spite of my “less than perfectness.” Will you join me? It’s odd, but true, that it really is a choice. It doesn’t seem like a choice; it seems like we need to wait until we are worthy… or better… or perfect… or fixed… or nicer… or skinnier… or more spiritual… or do everything right… or have enough time/money… or get enough “likes,” etc…. before we hold ourselves with the same love and acce ..read more

This week is about shifting your frequency to a higher vibration – because you can! And when you do, you tune your inner radio to the station that matches the perspectives, insights, and knowing of your inner Being, Higher Self, still small voice of God, Goddess within, divine guidance, or whatever you like to call that higher Essence available to each of us. Here’s one reason to care about that. Whatever heart’s desires you have been feeling – they have the ability to grow into reality. Really! As soon as a desire “hatches,” our Divine Essence is all over it and says, “Alright, let’s begin t ..read more