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Owning Your Voice: A Bit on Writing Craft and a Lot on Identity
Why am I doing what I’m doing? Who is it for? What meaning does it hold? The urge to compare can be paralyzing, but we can each only be who we are. How I can lean into who I already… Continue reading
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Facing a Double Bind: A Birthing Dilemma
At its best, is not the process of birth itself a form of surrender? One where my body delivers and yields, opening up to an embodied way of giving life that has been happening since women first knew existence. It… Continue reading
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Ebbs and Flows: Two Things True Simultaneously
Negative self-talk, shame, and comparison don’t serve me in working towards my goals. It also doesn’t help to completely let myself off the hook every day and say, “oh well.” No book manuscript will get finished this way. Continue reading
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Don’t Fall for Your Own Bullshit
Everyone needs voices and relationships in your life that call you on your own bullshit. Okay, I won’t speak for you. But I will speak for me. Continue reading
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The Intimate Expression of One’s Own Being
We are inextricably linked and interconnected with everyone around us. Most of us live oblivious to it, our ego teaching us to think in an individualized way. But if we are all made in the image of the Divine, if… Continue reading
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The Streams of My Mother’s Love
Considering God as Father is not wrong or incorrect. But it’s only one view. And there are so many others. I’m not going to argue that God should be translated as “she” with a capital “S” either, as if flipping… Continue reading
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The Kingdom of Heaven: It’s Not What You Think
“The Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness; it is not a place you go to, but a place you come from. It is a whole new way of looking at the world, a transformed… Continue reading
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My Most Generous Interpretation
What if I set aside instinctual judgments and assumptions about my relationships, choosing instead my most generous interpretation of what is going on? Continue reading
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No One Else Can Grow Me Up but Me
How many times during a day or a week do you expect someone else to solve your problem? Or to put it another way: how many times do you feel internally upset or dysregulated and your automatic response is to… Continue reading
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Scarcity versus Abundance
The stress was overwhelming. But then, for a moment, I remembered to breathe. Abundance. Breathe it in. It’s right there, waiting for me to claim. So do it. Breathe it in. Divine Essence, all around me. Believe. Slow. Move my… Continue reading
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