From the category archives:

Presence, Practice & Awareness

How to Be Your Own Fear-Whisperer

I’ve been saying for years that fear & resistance are the hardest things to work with in yourself because they have the power to shut off your thinking brain, and once that happens you can no longer work with them effectively on your own. Yet, at the same time, I absolutely KNOW that it IS [...]

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How Fast Can You Let Your Story Go?

It’s so easy to get caught up in our stories! The ones about who we are, how life is, how others treat us, how successful (or not) we are…and on and on. I can easily get triggered into one of my stories and lose a whole evening harrumphing around in it – like I did [...]

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Breathing What’s Here

I wanted to wake up differently today. I wanted to be energized, refreshed, ready to get on to things. But that’s not what’s here. Today is dark inside. Something snide and mean is speaking, dripping little bits of acid on everything. I’ve been waiting for something to surface. For days my inner world has been [...]

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How to Become Immune to Your Resistance

Does battling our resistance always have to be exhausting? I say no. A response to Seth Godin’s guest post on the Zen Habits blog.

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Healthy decisions are all about the “why”

The difference between a good decision and a bad one, often boils down to our real motivation. As Briana points out, heck we can make broccoli and unhealthy decision.

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The Sacred “Rightness” of Exactly Where You Are

Where you are right now is perfect. Really. And stopping and accepting that is the most enormous relief compared to running around frantically trying to avoid it.

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Doubt…a space to meet in

I was driving back to Halifax from Middleton, Nova Scotia the other morning and had a chance to hear Jian Ghomeshi on CBC radio interviewing John Patrick Shanley, the writer of the Pulitzer prize-winning play that was recently made into the movie Doubt. And he said a brilliant thing :