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Heal My Voice: Share Your Story of Healing
Some of you may have noticed my recent posts in Facebook. Others of you may be wondering what’s going on with me. I’ve been going deep … deep into my healing and deep into my journey. Drum roll, please … and I just completed my chapter for the next Heal My Voice book project, titled “Empowered Voices”! YOU were my inspiration. YOU were at my back, pushing and cheering me as I navigated into uncharted waters. Let me rewind a bit so you can catch up. At the end of January, I posted The Physical Side to My Love Affair. It was a...
read moreJoin Me at the Tapping World Summit in May
Since the beginning of April, I’ve been participating in a 3-month Energy Coaching intensive. The results that I have been seeing in 30 minute sessions have been mind-blowing. I’m convinced … the way of the future for both health challenges and personal growth is ENERGY. On the surface, it may appear that I am diverging from my yoga therapy and meditation background, but honestly I am not. Why? Because energy IS the behind-the-scenes reason why the Body-Mind Connection works the way it does. The way I see it, it...
read moreApril 28-29, 2012 In-Person 5th Annual Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Conference
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) continues to be a huge part of my life, even though I no longer attend a weekly practice. I remain committed to sharing with you amazing opportunities to experience this for yourself because this continues to be an evolving learning for me. Most recently, I’ve been exploring my power dynamics in relationships, those areas where I continue to expect someone else to “make it right for me” or where I jump in to “fix it for them”. You may wonder “Power dynamics … NVC? I...
read moreTaking the Busy out of Business
A few weeks ago, I announced at a womens’ circle meeting that I was toying with a radical, dangerous, dare I say, frivolous idea. “What if I chose to let go of everything that is busy, hard, draining or a struggle in my business and focused on what feels good?” Sitting in this circle of women entrepreneurs, engaged in an exploration of our limiting beliefs around money, I expected that my idea would be met with protests and denial. And yet, they all smiled at me as if they had been patiently waiting for me to wake up. All of this...
read moreA Life Without Regrets … Living in my Genius
A couple of weeks ago, I had dinner with a close friend who I met back in my corporate days. Even back then, we two Accountants would put aside the masks of debits, credits and journal entries to share our latest spiritual questions with each other. So we found ourselves after a 4 hour long conversation, out in front of the restaurant, unwilling to let it end. And he told me that he’s been musing over death and the idea that the soul returns to where it came from. He said that he doesn’t believe in a heaven “where the streets are...
read moreEssence – Myth or Fact? The Revealing Truth
For years, I’ve been wondering, “As I learn to quiet my Internal Critic, what’s left? If not my Ego, who is it that shows up as Me?” Unexpectedly, I recently discovered that I’ve been exploring the answer, using many different approaches, for almost 5 years. The answer is “Essence”. There are a lot of words for this, like “Higher Self”, “Spirit”, and “Soul”, but I like “Essence”. Why? Because it is easy for me to dismiss the first three words as somehow not a part of me … face it, they even sound like they...
read moreMarch 18, 2012 In Person Talk Author of “Tattoos on the Heart”
I know I already sent out a post this week, but I couldn’t hold out on sharing this opportunity with you! Out of my most recent readings, “Tattoos on the Heart” by Father Gregory Boyle is the one that stands out for me. He will be speaking for FREE at the Camarillo Community Center on March 18 at 2pm. This is a book about compassion, serving those who are left behind by society, and more than that, it is a book about the joys and challenges of reconciling one’s belief in a loving, creative God with the violence, sorrow and...
read moreMarch 13, 2012 Teleseminar 15 Weeks with Healing With The Masters
Last year, I shared Healing With The Masters with you, an incredible opportunity to hear for free some of the world’s foremost experts on conscious change. While my schedule does not permit me to attend many of the calls live, I appreciate that this FREE program allows me to catch the replay for 48 hours after a particular call. Those replays provided me with the exact insights that I needed to shift my awareness around a particular problem or pattern that was up for me at that time. What stood out for me was Sonia Choquette’s suggestion...
read moreDiscovering Treasures in Unforeseen Spaces (Part 2)
Here is the continuation of the treasures that I discovered through my husband’s leukemia diagnosis. Treasure #4: Be willing to share your fears and emotions – there is more risk keeping them bottled up. 2010: Our use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has been a huge blessing during this journey. Just three years ago, I would have withheld my thoughts, and associated feelings of resentment, anxiety and sadness from my husband … not wanting to burden him … fearful that he would blame himself. NVC has taught us a common...
read moreDiscovering Treasures in Unforeseen Spaces (Part 1)
As I re-read this particular article from April 2010, I found myself struck by just how much my husband and I have made these treasures part and parcel of our lives. Amazing how the fire that can be life can also forge strength of conviction! I’m weaving in a 2012 update into each treasure, so that I can share more recent morsels of insight. Rather than generate one HUGE blog post, I’ve divided it into two parts so that you can easily digest what I’m sharing. Treasure #1: Listen hard to those signs that your body is telling...
read more2012 Tapping World Summit with Nick Ortner
