Summer
Speaking Your Heart Outloud
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“Courage starts with showing up
and letting ourselves be seen.”
— Brené Brown
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Longtime readers may remember The C.O.A.C.H. Method I’ve shared over the years — five movements I keep returning to: Curiosity (the radical act of not knowing), Optimism (hope as a practice), Awareness (seeing what’s actually true), Courage, and Healing. (New here? Welcome — you’ve arrived right where you need to be.) This week I want to dwell on the one that turns insight into action: COURAGE.
This is where insight becomes action. Where awareness meets the world. Where your authentic truth gets to have a voice. This is where transformation moves from internal to embodied. continue reading
The Medicine of Rest
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“A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.”
— Lao Tzu
Greetings to all my precious people!!
In the thick of summer, I want to make the case for something we’re strangely bad at: rest. Real rest. The kind with no agenda and no arrival time.
We live as though rest must be earned — as though we have to spend ourselves all the way down before we’re allowed to stop. But Chinese Medicine sees it differently. Rest isn’t the reward for depletion; it’s how we prevent depletion in the first place. The whole system runs on the balance of Yin and Yang — Yin being rest, stillness, receptivity; Yang being activity, drive, output. A culture like ours runs almost entirely on Yang, and then wonders why it’s so tired. A true rest — even a small one — is a deliberate return to Yin, and it’s how the body restores balance. continue reading
You Are The Magic
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“Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax.”
— Pema Chödrön
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are living in interesting times. For ourselves, our country, the world — there’s rarely a clean, clear signal about what’s beginning and what’s ending. We live in the middle of things, slipping between past, present, and future, partly in harmony and often in confusion, reminded that two opposing things can be true at once. Shift is constant. The emotional clarity we long for can feel just out of reach. continue reading
Embrace Hope to Support Healing
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
and sings the tunes without the words
and never stops at all.”
~~ Emily Dickinson
The Sacred Integration of Wholeness
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve traveled together through the complete landscape of transformation: CURIOSITY opened the door to possibility, OPTIMISM showed us that change is not only possible but scientifically supported, AWARENESS revealed what’s authentically true, and COURAGE gave us the strength to act on that truth.
Now we arrive at the sacred destination that was always calling us home: HOPE & HEALING – the integration of everything you’ve discovered into lived wholeness.
This isn’t the end of our journey. This is where the journey becomes a way of being. continue reading
Vacation
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
~~ Seán O’Casey
Greetings to all my precious people!!
The land of my ancestors is nestled in the heart of the North Atlantic Ocean, and up until 15,000 years ago, it was completely covered with glaciers. Ireland is an amazing testament to nature and her unparalleled beauty. The landscape is magnificent, with lush green hills, captivating coastlines, rugged cliffs, sandy beaches, and bustling harbors. The island itself is roughly the size of Indiana and comprises 32 counties, 26 of which are in the Republic of Ireland, and 6 in Northern Ireland. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), an independent sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. continue reading
