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Solstice – inside and out

We are at a turning point in the year when day and night are about equal.What can be easily seen...
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Dream a little dream🌈

Dream a little dream🌈

Each week during for the past year, I met with a friend who is a Professor of Economics at a...
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Seeds of change

“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”  - Thich Nhat Hanh This is a seed of a moment.Change is in the...
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When affirmations are not enough

https://youtu.be/sIsRME2vQ8U Identity based habits work and lead to long term change.  Goal setting alone does not.   Your current behavior is...
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Is your life a product? Or a process?

A student of mine, who I have had the pleasure of working with for over 10 years, recently came to...
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Freedom from the Hustle

an ode to Jay Z Happy New Year’s Day 2022! Thank you for being here.As we turn the page on another year,...
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We need some AWE to carry us

"You need power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done." ~...
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Family Gathering: Reports from The Field

At its best a large family gathering is fun, full of laughter and connection. If it is going to be challenging,...
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Your Social Nervous System during The Holidays

Part One...  Let’s talk relationships, family, friends and ‘the holidays” and the nervous system. Over the next few weeks many of...
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“Joy is the most vulnerable emotion.”

I recently read that quote in an interview in The New Yorker with Brene Brown.Have you ever noticed that sometimes...
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Try a little tenderness

Is it possible to seek change and growth and accept ourselves as we are?  Over the past week, I took...
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Who do you tell yourself you are?

If I was lucky enough to meet you in person and ask you tell me about yourself, what stories would you...
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Taking a bite of The Big Apple

🍎   My youngest child read 15 novels, in addition to school, as part of a national book competition this year....
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We are on the verge of a re-emerge

Having spent the last year in the cocoon of our home, moving through smaller spaces with fewer people around us,...
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What will you allow to spill out into the world?

Last week I was talking about learning how to regulate your nervous system at any given moment. While it is...
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Is it really always best to be calm?

Spring is well under way here where I live. The ground is warming. The crocuses are up...and  sometimes when this starts...
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Are you a natural?

I live in a river valley, at 3000 feet at the foot of The Black Mountains in Western North Carolina. The...
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More love..more love…

Love is so pure, so simple, so elemental. How can we grow more? The simplest and most exquisite act of love is...
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Do you have character?

How’s it going where you are? Here in the mountains - it’s been an action-packed couple of weeks. Some good...
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How they do where you from?

Did you ever stop to wonder how you came to think the things you think? Believe your beliefs? Or value...
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