Boundless Compassion The next few weeks will contain what I have come to realize as the needed prescription for bringing in the new – for revealing the Renaissance that wants to come forth from a time of swift change and crippling loss.  It is clear to me that relying...

Qualities of Transition – Part 1 “First you see it, then you believe it”…Wayne Dyer To move from transition to transcendence we need to have vision.  We need to move from the seen to the unseen…from what we must work with …to what the possibilities are in the...

From Transition to Transcendence There are transitions in life that we can label…empty nesting, retirement, marriage, child rearing to name a few; and I believe we think of them as temporary, as the next stage follows quickly after an event.  Then I think there are...

The energy of Inventiveness A few months ago I wrote about the coming of a Renaissance…that historically that is what follows a period of darkness including the Plague and other pandemic like activities.  Some wonderfully curious woman in Italy decided to study that...

Love On Every Breath In my Twenties I was inspired by many global leaders…from the Kennedy legacy to Dr. King to Oprah- a diverse group to say the least.  I thought at the time that no greater motivation could infuse me than to change the world. And it did indeed seem...

Fear and It will Appear It is often a challenge to discern what is at the very foundation of things happening in our personal worlds and in our world at large.  It has looked to me from time to time as complicated issues and complicated motivations and so- called...

Relax and Release One of my primary teachers recently said that 80% of our spiritual journey is Letting Go…he didn’t say what the other 20% was but I imagined it to be acquiring…acquiring knowledge or practice -whether of meditation or yoga or chi gong.  That hit me...

WU WEI all the way wu wei. (wo͞o wā) n. A Taoist principle of action in accordance with the true nature of people, objects, and systems, rather than striving for dominance and control. I have a good friend in Ohio who shares the goal with me of going with the Flow. ...

Look for the Good As citizens of the world, the last couple of weeks have been hard to watch – full of emotion and the temptation to judge harshly how things should be going.  As a lover of New Orleans, the last week has been hard – remembering the horror of Katrina...

It’s Not New – But It’s Still True When I first began to study psychology the understanding was dominated by external circumstances as the causation for mental distress.  Talking to patients about their upbringing or their life experiences was the primary method to...

Seven Whispers Several years ago I read a wonderful little book entitled Seven Whispers-Listening to the voice of Spirit by Christina Baldwin.  Christina is one of the pioneers of journal writing whose course cemented my own commitment to journaling. This week that...

  Follow Your Bliss Joseph Campbell coined the phrase..Follow your Bliss-I still remember the first time I heard that – it definitely resonated but I had no idea what it meant.  I was blessed with an interesting and diverse career path – from sales and management...