Do you know how to do nothing? Meaning…well, not do anything. Nada. No plans. No efforting. No crunching, grinding, crushing. You make time for you and don’t fill it up with stuff and doing. It’s not “here’s 1 hour of my day and I’m going to valiantly leave my office/computer and have lunch, read this mind-bogglingly brilliant essay by Rebecca…
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Take care, those dreams
Take your dreams seriously. Because I SWEAR TO GODDESS if you don’t, no one else will. Stop looking to others for approval. Just stop it. Give it to your damn self. Think about it. How fucking great is that?? You can give the approval you seek to yourself! In fact, at one point you most certainly did. But for any…
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what I’ve really wanted to say
I’ve been sitting with what I really want to say to you…with the conversation I really want to have right now. I feel like we’re all working so hard to figure things out. Trying to make sense of how and why we got here — in our own lives and in our collective reality. Our “fix it” programming is, collectively,…
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Grateful Wednesday
I’ll admit it freely…I’m a gratitude junkie. Awe and wonder have always been in abundance for me since I was a kid. I oooh and aaaah at a lot of things (understatement). I used to worry that it made me look dumb. Now, I’m a grown ass woman and I allow the wonder to wash over me and I’m grateful for…
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Hold. Holding. Held. (part 2)
Trust isn’t just a switch to be flipped. It has to be earned. It takes patience, commitment, willingness, creativity, vision and persistence like a MF. Self-trust included. BUT! If you start with setting the intention to trust, that’s when you make space for miracles. You actually create space inside of you to allow trust in. This is where that compassion…
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Hold. Holding. Held. (part 1)
Do you ever feel like there’s no safety net? If you fall, no one will be there to catch you? Perhaps that you’re all alone in the world (when it really, really comes down to it)? Or that you can only depend on yourself? Ironically, you’re not alone. These beliefs, if we boil them down to their essence, often come from a…
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Being a tenderheart during election season (aka always)
I’ve been feeling a little tender and extra with all the election/convention/post-convention news onslaught that’s been going for well over a year and it just. never. stops. On my car radio, at the gym, all over my phone and my computer and my email. In everyones’ mouths. As if nothing else matters. Or nothing else is happening. Except for the interspersing of…
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Self-care is not self-indulgence
I’ve been chewing on this one a bit. I met the author, Laurie Penny (aka Penny Red), during Occupy days in NYC and at one point, I was part of her never-launched pilot webseries where we sat around the artist Molly Crabapple’s creepy dollhouse loft, chatted revolution, ate cupcakes and drank whiskey. She’s a rabble-rouser and astute critic. This time, she goes…
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