If something throws me off my meditation routine, I’m reluctant to get back to it for one reason. I’m afraid I might lose my mojo. That is, my type A personality, kicking-butt, crossing-off-the-to-do-list, get-er-done, TCB, SUPER STAR status. It’s silly. Silly because in my case it’s kind of like the person at the party who’s [...]

  Sometimes after a 20-minute meditation I can’t understand why it seemed so imperative that I clean the ENTIRE house before leaving for work, or fretted about the newly discovered grey eyebrow hair. And I suddenly had an epiphany about the exact right thing I needed to do about a troubling situation. Things have changed that much. But [...]

I am a being of light. And I pluck up resentments like a homeless man does barely smoked cigarette butts. I minimize and repress and distance myself from whatever I view as “negative” emotions until pretty soon, I’m weighted down by these pebbles of resentment.  Resentment about a missed yoga class because of poor planning. Resentment that I’ve fallen [...]

I love words. Repeat them over in my head all day because I like the way they sound love. Try to use a new favorite word in a sentence love. Develop crushes on people who use words in a clever way love. I love how words can have essentially the same meaning but make you feel so different. [...]

What’s wrong with your body? Belly fat? Constipation? Crows feet? It’s easy for women to tick off things that are wrong with their body. What’s working right today? As promised in my last blog, I think as women we don’t spend enough time thanking our body for the daily challenges it performs with ease and without complaint. [...]