We hear it all the time. You need to have a good mindset, a positive mindset, a growth mindset, but what actually IS mindset? And why is it so important?​ Mindset is the set of beliefs that form how you view yourself, others, and the entire world around you. It influences pretty much everything from how you think, […]

  There is no control issue until you say NO!!!! ​ Think about it, before then it’s an agreement. But once one of us says: “It has to be my way!” Now you are stuck. And in most arguments this is where we get caught. ​​ “You don’t care about me!” “Well, you don’t care […]

  Sacred Intimacy The founder of The Jorni, a wonderful online resource and author of this passage is a dear friend of mine, PETRA BRUNNBAUER. Be blessed by her wisdom! These are her precious words!   DISCOVERING OURSELVES THROUGH SACRED INTIMACY AND TANTRIC EMBODIMENT Have you ever thought about how well you really know yourself and what […]

What Is Your Super Power? ​ What is your super power? Truly! Do you know yours? Do you utilize it in all the ways you can? Here are seven of them. Hopefully you see yourself having several of these traits. Where are you the strongest? Where do you want to grow? Let’s fan out your cape! 1. […]

  My sister died. We think of complications with Alzheimer’s. She was the last holder of my key to our childhood memories. The last who deeply knew my Mom. I am now the oldest and only of my childhood family. I was the baby. Flip flop see saw. It’s bizarre to be THE oldest generation […]

    Do you love otters? Learning? Joy? A moment when every changes?   A friend shared a movie about a man’s joyful life salvation because of an encounter with a stranded baby otter.  Think The Octopus Teacher.  It is the sweetest story on the powerful impact of how caring for another transforms our lives.  […]

I Am An Inconvenience    I have lost my independence. And here it is the 4th!  I hope you are going to the beach or a block party!   It’s been humbling to ask folks to open my water bottle.  Actually I’ve learned to do it between my legs but it’s a little uncouth in […]

  We want it to be at times.  When it would serve us.  But who ever told you life would be fair? And what would happen if it was?  Everything would be even.  Everything would happen as it “should”.  There’d  be no personal growth, no challenge, nothing new, everything would be nice.  And function nicely. […]

  Do you let go? What do you think when I ask that? Is that giving up? Weak? Does it make you a Quitter?   Or what else could it be?   Is it always weak to let go?   I don’t think so.  Letting go can be an act of power, of courage, of […]

Do you think that’s true?  That a 100% is easier than 99%?  I didn’t think so until I heard someone speaking about the challenges of 1%.   Let’s take sugar.  Is it easier to tell yourself you can NEVER have sugar this week or 99% of the time you can not have sugar?   I […]