The first time I retreated ended up lasting four years.  In 1985, I moved into a Kripalu Yoga Ashram for three-month spiritual lifestyle training program and I stayed four years. I don't regret this one bit.  Oh, I had that 'voice in my head' that said I was running...

Since I began to work with clients in 1995, the core issue, no matter what result my client desired to achieve, has been a lack of self-love. Self-love is a paradox though. In the highest reality, we are Beings of Love. This is who we are in Essence. So if this is who...

I had a very powerful dream a couple months ago---the kind of dream that keeps on giving! I was walking on my favorite part of the trail near the wetlands where all the red-winged blackbirds nest in the cattails.  In the dream I look over to my right and a red-winged...

There is a world of difference between a voice that speaks from the neck up and one that arises from the depths of bodily knowing.  Women who have primarily identified with the intellect may believe we have found our voices before we have found our depths.  From...

The hiding I’m referring to is hiding from your Self.  Hiding from your Light.  Everyone has a calling in life.  Many times, we hide from our calling because it seems impossible to achieve in this world.    When you're hiding, you're safe because people can't see you...

There's a section in my book where I describe the first time I wrote in a journal and felt my Essence landing on the page as the words landed on the page. I had felt cut off from my connection with language, with the real language of my Soul, my Voice.  That moment...

The theme this week with my clients is life transition and the transformation that is possible when we transition consciously.  But why does it take deliberate focus and intention to do this?  Why can't it be as easy as when the caterpillar becomes the butterfly? When...

When I teach about finding your voice, I'm not referring to some static 'thing' that you find and then have.  Your voice is alive; it's the place where language and spirit meet.  It's the place where your unique life journey expresses in your own way the wisdom and...

The following two statements require contemplation.  Contemplate each word until the statement begins to make sense to you personally.    The path to a transformed self involves dying to an old way of being and being reborn into a new way of being. As Lao Tsu has...