Accepting Awkwardness Creates Awesomeness

Accepting Awkwardness Creates Awesomeness

Avoidance is the best policy, right? 😂  While I spent much of my life “running” from sadness, anger, fear, frustration, and the like, I’ve realized: Radical acceptance of the awkward stuff, not avoidance, is the path to...
Putting the “Well” in Our Mental Wellness

Putting the “Well” in Our Mental Wellness

Sometimes things are not as they look. Granted, many sunsets from our street are beautiful (like this one), there’s also a lot going on “beneath the surface”. Mud, dirt, pollution, predators, prey, death, and so on lie out of view. I point this out...

Meditation on Becoming a Passer of Peace

What’s one of your favorite words?  One I especially adore, and have a tat of, is “shalom”.  While this Hebrew word is typically translated “peace”, it also means wholeness, unity, and harmony.  It’s basically shorthand for...

Beautiful Living is Learning to Surf the Waves of Life

On top of life’s Ocean of Love there are lots of waves, and while we can’t stop them, we can learn to surf; so let’s get our wakeboards of bliss out and start paddling! I read a great story about this that I share in my short video blog below, so I...
7 Ways Mindful Breathing Will Wonderfully Change Your Life

7 Ways Mindful Breathing Will Wonderfully Change Your Life

“Breath is the way IN.” This mantra from Eoin Finn, founder of Blissology and one of my yoga teachers, sums up a practice that’s transformed my life, and very well could yours too: Mindful Breathing. Regularly pausing to breathe with intention is a gateway to all...