Here are the OTHER 13!! Reframe the idea of ‘success’ as your own personal (r)evolution Get to know yourself intimately, inside and out, even the vulnerable bits Be a lifelong learner & curate your own education Live in your dream NOW – don’t wait to put it on Continually come from your integrity & offer(…)
Ever feel overwhelmed by social media? Ever feel isolated and disconnected from the faces and correspondence on the screen?? If you’re anything like me, then you have trouble carrying out intimate interactions on a computer screen and making social media feel more real & heart-based. Right? Without the feel of the other person’s skin gently(…)
The Hebrew phrase “Lo tirtza-akh” found in Exodus 20:13 has its root in the word ‘rahtz-akh’, which translates to: “Don’t murder or slay another person or yourself; Don’t break, bruise or crush his or her spirit; and Don’t batter or shatter.” The 6th commandment, as Christians know it, simply states “You Shall Not Murder.” Both(…)
“The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness.” @SPressfield The metallic print to the left is titled The ARmaTure of Trash, and hails from my ARmaTures of Awareness series. Set idyllically in a garbage dump, the ‘high fashion’ wearable sculpture was constructed entirely(…)
Last summer, on July 4th, I suffered a hip injury while rockin’ out to the DC fireworks that kept me from my new health, healing & self-care regimen with my body. It had been a spotty start to begin with, but I was just starting to get into the swing of the new habit patterns,(…)
V is for Victorious Today an unprecedented milestone of outrageous love and uber creative activism is taking place across the globe. Billions of individuals from our human family, representing every country in the world, are joining forces to RISE UP against the systemic abuse of our women & girls…and DANCE to celebrate One Billion Rising.(…)
Today I wanted to talk to you about VISION, and specifically the VISION of YOUR future. Every year I make a vision board, which I adore doing (see the picture to the right!) though I also craft a carefully thought out and energized statement which I like to call my “Proclamation of Purpose.” Essentially it’s(…)
Over the holidays my beloved and I ventured for an overnight trip to the Florida Keys, with the specific intention to swim with the sweetness of dolphins. I recently received a message that I had ‘dolphin ancestry’ from a powerful two-spirited Shaman, and decided to investigate my ‘kin’ further, squeaks and all. This trip turned(…)
I’m exhaling ahhhhhhh after two weeks of vacation, ending in a 4-day New Year’s ritual retreat with my colleague Barbara Biziou at Kripalu in the mountains of Massachusetts. Though I’m feeling totally ALIVE and aware of the adventures & challenges before our humanity and me in 2013, I wanted to take a moment to remind(…)
“This is indeed a story of madness, and of isolation. But it is not the violence or the madness that is isolated. The violence and the isolation are what happens when we choose to live our lives in denial of the violence that our way of life requires.” – Theodore Richards When Tragedy Strikes The(…)
Births are messy yet magnificent, magical yet necessary for the world and our species to continually evolve into its full potential. (click to tweet) Last month I had the great privilege of experiencing not just one birth, but 2. My own birthday fell on Saturday, November 10th while I was taking part in the birth(…)