On Integrity
On Integrity My mother used to say, “There is no rest for the wicked.” Religious views and...
Self Acceptance Assesment
Self-acceptance assessment. If we want to accept ourselves more it is helpful to see how we do not...
7 Ways to be in More Integrity
Integrity: 1.) The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. 2.) The state of...
How to Forgive Yourself for Your Mistakes
It is impossible to make it through a day without making some kind of error in judgment. You spill...
A Secret Key to Deeper Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is not the result of what we have or have not done in our life. No matter what the...
On Leadership
On Leadership To truly create something different, to rise above the standard forms that we have...
Spiritual Bypassing
What is Spiritual Bypassing…And, Is it Really a Problem? “Spiritual bypassing, a term coined in...
6 Signs of Toxic Spirituality
“The spiritual ego can arise before and after liberation. Vigilance is required until the very...
Four Tools for Creating an Ethical Organization
Four Tools for Creating an Ethical Organization (group, program, family etc...) I believe that...
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On Vulnerability and Humility
About a year after stepping more deeply into my spiritual path, a series of events shifted everything I thought I knew. They pushed me into an entirely different understanding of what it means to grow spiritually. I came to see that integrity is the most important...
Facing the Resistance: Why We Hesitate to Say Yes to Spiritual Initiation
When people hear about initiation—especially one tied to a spiritual lineage—they often feel a pull... and simultaneously, a push. That ambivalence is real. And if you’ve felt it, you’re not alone. In this article, I want to explore some of the common resistances to...
Loving and Leaving Your Inner Victim
What does it mean to be empowered? One of my early teachers, Alisa Starkweather, offered a definition that has stayed with me: Empowerment means knowing that you have a choice. It’s a deceptively simple truth. But in practice, it’s revolutionary. To be at choice is to...