Having returned for a couple days from one trip and preparing to head out for another, I have been doing a lot of packing and unpacking. There are a lot of last minute things to finish at work and at home. Items to pick up. Items to drop off. Calls to make. Appointments to cancel. With [...]

Lately, I’ve been shutting doors (or dreaming about nailing them closed) and throwing open windows. I’m in the midst of some serious life spring cleaning. I’m meditating as often as possible. Even if that means for short snatches on planes with a toddler’s head in my lap. Often at the end of a meditation I might [...]

Yoga teachers are always telling you things like, “send your breath into your kidneys.” Or “breathe into those tight spots.” I do as I’m told flowing my breath into body organs and unstretchy bits looking for release. Lately I’ve been doing the same with my at-home meditation. For the last week or so, I’ve closed [...]

Welcome! Yesterday I published part one  of the interview with Abby Seixas, author of “Finding the Deep River Within.” The books aims to free women from the tyranny of their to-do lists. It provides practical and spiritual tools and is illustrated with success stories by women Abby met in her practice as a psychotherapist or in her Deep [...]

Happy soon-to-be Mother’s Day! As a gift to you, I would love for you to win a copy of a book that I’m recommending to every woman who finds herself thinking, I wish things would just slow down. Who hasn’t thought that? It’s Abby Seixas’ “Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman’s Guide to Recovering Balance [...]