Remind Yourself All the Time of What You Really Are.
Holidays are especially tricky when family members have seemingly conflicting beliefs. To spend time together, we make compromises.
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We Have No Idea We Aren’t Being Authentic.
We have no idea how to express ourselves... what that feels like in our own bodies even if we could tell you in detail what it looks like in others.
Embrace Your Authentic Self, Even in the Face of Prejudice.
It takes courage to face those who would call anyone 'not normal'. I wish we were all loving people, who celebrate the beauty of humanity's diversity.
To the Little Crazy Freak in Me… and You.
Let her have space, this crazy little freak, let her light and her awkwardness get to the surface of your being, by letting go of what you’ve learnt.
Commit, Or Leave: The Art Of Long-Term Commitment.
The texture of commitment hasn’t been a grandiose cinematic score. Daily, it feels more like a Bach Suite -- sweet, rhythmic, flowing, precise, simple.
In Celebration of Peter Pans.
My dating types are Peter Pans. Maybe, to us, self-professed Renaissance women, their appearance in our lives stimulates and tips over our creativity.
Days like Today.
It's on days like today that I give myself permission to feel a little woeful. But not for too long, never too long. I dig into my strength.
Dismantling the Romantic Illusion of ‘Happily Ever After’ and Stepping into Authentic Relating.
Relationships invite me to come from a place where my love cup overflows to my lover and life. I choose this way of relating over those romantic illusions.
Don’t Turn Away: The Initiation of America.
And that is the whole point of the initiatory process. It comes crashing into our lives to dismantle and reorganize the status quo when the situation has become unbalanced, unsustainable; when we have been living unconsciously, blind to even our own machinations. It forces us to look ...
Being Lloyd Dobler: A Lesson on Authentic Vulnerability.
In the last two years, I have been actively working on healing a broken heart and loving myself fully, while also getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. I could have easily withered away out of embarrassment and rejection, or as a friend said about herself, "felt defeated because I ...