Mindfulness

When more than a couple of things go wrong, do you ever catch yourself saying, “it’s just a bad day?” When that happens, do you notice the entire day just kind of stays sideways? Often intention-setting practices are done in the evening before bed or first thing in the morning to set up a successful […]

I remember the first time I felt joy after my mother died. She had battled leukemia for three and a half years before she died. On the day of her diagnosis, in December of 2003, my world went dark and stayed that way most of the time until she died. After her death, I was

If I ask you to bring to mind your worst critic, that person in the office, or in your family, who just never thinks anything you do is good enough, and they aren’t afraid to tell you, who would it be? Insert name here:  If you came up with a name of a co-worker or

Does life seem difficult right now? You may feel depleted, heavy, and overtired. Do normal activities just feel challenging? Feeling depleted is not normal, and you don’t have to settle for feeling down or tired all of the time. You have the power to live in vital health and well-being, it just takes one thing:

Don’t you hate being told to “take a deep breath!” Usually, when someone tells me this, it’s the absolute last thing I feel like doing. You’re angry, and you’re about to blow your top at someone (which you will later no doubt regret) and your breath comes in short shallow gasps. You are in fight

I was recently reading “Breathing Love, Meditation in Action” a book by my friend and teacher Jennie Lee. If you haven’t read it, I can’t recommend it highly enough. It is a wonderful combination of daily practices to bring more joy and ease into your life, and rich, relatable stories to help you feel connected

 Illuminate dark winter nights with warm nourishing practices: If you’re an Old Testament reader, you know that the second act of God was to bring in the light. Immediately the light was deemed good. And it is! This time of year in the northern hemisphere things get really dark. Up in the Pacific Northwest where

Depending on where you are in the world, autumn may have arrived recently. When it did, if you are the Pacific NW like I am, this year felt like an especially rapid transition from summer. I feel like we barely got through a record-breaking heatwave and now, the ground is covered with soggy leaves. Ayurveda,

Our global community is under so much stress right now. Many of us can barely remember a time when we felt light and easy and weren’t suffering from uncertainty and fear.  As stress increases, we need to develop new self-care tools to stay healthy.  Mental and physical health needs to be prioritized like never before.