As we release 2009 and invite in 2010, we continue to experience tremendous shift on a global and individual level. How we perceive these significant changes in the economic, financial, environmental, and political landscape will determine our future as inhabitants of planet earth. So, instead of reacting from fear, anger, and/or resistance, we can respond [...]

Here it is, the winter solstice and a time for reflection and celebration. In many  Native American cultures, tribes and families would gather to start up a new year at the solstice and have a special celebration where they would make a request to the Great Spirit to eliminate certain things that they no longer [...]

My daughter, Alex gave her senior speech this week on non-attachment and letting go. In her message to her classmates, faculty, and family, she told this story. In 1992,  a Chinese freighter mistakenly dropped a crate of 30,000 rubber duckies into the Pacific Ocean. Three months later, many of these “friendly floatees” were discovered [...]

I just spent the last several days with my dearest friend, Debbie at Sunset Beach in NC. On Saturday, as we took a long stroll on the beach, we both had the intent to find some unusual shells. She wanted ones she could place in a “healing” fishing net she was making to represent everything [...]

Permission to break with tradition: Give each other permission to take time for yourselves and each other. Be open to creating new experiences and breaking the predictable patterns of what you’ve always done around the holidays. Take a short get-away, give each other massages, and spend more relaxed time together.
Communicate your needs: Take turns sharing [...]