On Trusting Others
While love is a magnificent gift that we can offer those around us, an even more poignant offering...
14 Ways to Reestablish Trust
Whether you are the person who has been hurt or you are the person who has broken trust, you very...
How to Use Self-Love to Better Care for Yourself
Both self-care and pleasure begin with self-love. As we love ourselves more and more, it creates...
What Gets in the Way of Our Ability to Care for Ourselves
When people think about self-care, they often imagine a list of things that they need to do for...
Using Pleasure to Create the Life You Want
Our pleasure shows us where we are in alignment. It is a natural built-in system that shows us...
10 Ways to Feel More Pleasure Each Day
1. Savor it! Actively focus on the parts of your life that are pleasurable. Receive the pleasure...
On Self Care
Dedication to our path, whatever that looks like for us, is necessary for our continual...
Understanding the Victim-Perpetrator Shadow Dynamic
One very important aspect of working with the shadow comes from the work of Cliff Barry, who has...
Three Ways To Bring Your Shadow To Light
To work with the shadow, it is helpful to notice when it is most active. One of the ways to know...
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Feminine Complexity and the Power of Archetypes
The feminine, in its essence, is vast, changeable, and deeply interconnected with mystery. Unlike linear systems of understanding, the feminine moves in cycles, contradictions, and paradoxes. Yet, modern culture has often attempted to define it in rigid, simplistic...
On Happiness
I was a person who rolled my eyes when someone would say that they just wanted to be happy. I wanted passion, intensity, or to change the world not merely to be happy. Happiness seemed like a cop out -the easy path for those people who lack character. I stand...
On Beauty
I was over forty years old before I realized I was beautiful—right about the time many people might believe that a woman’s beauty begins to fade. I remember sitting in grade school, awkward and shy, with a unique sense of imposed style that often got me ridiculed,...