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Will I Be Mine? A Valentine’s Day Inspiration

Let’s go radical this Valentine’s Day! Make it a priority to ask YOURSELF to be your valentine.

Are you are your own worst critic?

If so, the challenge of your personal growth is an attitude adjustment from self-judgment to self-acceptance. Are you driven into your personal spiritual work from a deep desire to serve? Then the personal growth challenge is to find a way that allows service to be offered easily without an attachment to an outcome. A core thread in my spiritual integration work is the practice of radical self-acceptance. An ordinary motivation to choose the work of self-inquiry is wrapped up in the packaging of punitive self-judgment. Reliable detachment from outcomes comes only as a result of a deep acceptance of yourself. By loving yourself and having compassion for all of you, you are better equipped for loving others

Growth

New Year’s Resolutions that Actually Work

There’s a common hitch that affects most New Year’s resolutions: we are lucky if our excellent intentions last out the month of January! Why is this and how can you optimize your success at achieving the goals you set?

Generally, we all know the reasoning of setting a goal and resolving to attain it. Wanting to evolve and grow is a common desire. Because our culture supports January 1st as the beginning of a new year, you have the support of the collective unconscious for setting resolutions at this time. When a society has a collective belief, it provides an actual archetypal scaffold to assist you in setting an intention in place.

Acceptance

Embrace the Dark: How To Take Advantage of Winter…

Here we are heading down the path to Winter’s Solstice on December 21st. This is the dark time, the time that the sun shines on us the shortest, and we have the darkness to enfold us. For many of us this is a time we dread.

I am here to present you with a re-framing of that attitude. What if this time of year is an opportunity to pull in and rest? To relax and reflect on all the projects you worked on over the year? To have the down time you need for balancing the very active lifestyle you live the rest of the year? What if this time of dark is a natural opportunity to look for that quiet voice that softly tells you what living a congruent and authentic life really is like?

Acceptance

How Gratitude Can Build a Positive Foundation in Your…

Gratitude is the foundational underpinning of life acceptance. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It is this time of year that I am reminded (most often sweetly, though sometimes it feels more like the proverbial 2×4!) that gratitude is the antidote for yearning. If I can have gratitude for my life and what is in it right now, then I am in the present and the anxiety that is produced by yearning for what is yet to be accomplished quiets. I can then see what is right in front of me that I need to do to move me forward to attain that goal I have set.

Acceptance

Three Tools to Manage Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life

On top of the stress of your everyday life – family, job, finances- you also witness world events like Ebola, terrorist assassinations and devastating tidal waves in real time. This can be overwhelming to your emotional, physical and mental well-being. As an Intuitive Counselor, I work with many people who are dealing with feelings of frustration and helplessness, caused by overwhelming events in their lives or in the world.

Compassion

God Be With the Mother: One parent’s story of…

I have the feeling that there is a commonality in this story for all mothers, if not all parents. A mother, who is very dear to my heart, has a 16-year-old daughter who recently told her that she has tried to commit suicide twice. Now, dear reader, know that this youngster has support. What this post is about is managing the opening and closing and (hopefully) opening again of a parent’s heart.

Community Building

Summer Opportunity

Greetings to you who are in the Seattle area!

Here is an Inner Yaga Open Circle flier that invites you to attend a peer run woman’s circle that are offered as a summer opportunity. The last one is Wednesday, September 10^th in Bellevue, WA.

Building a Collaborative Community: Lessons from Geese

One of my enduring passions is implementing my study of collaboration. It is so much fun (for me anyway :)) to bring your leadership skills into community building. More accurately, what is fun is to intentionally build a collaborative community. The structure of community that I am practicing is from a horizontal template rather than a vertical (hierarchical) template. It applies as well in the business environment as well. In a horizontal team structure each of us on a team are on the same level as all the rest. Your designated job does not change. The only way that a horizontal template will work is if everyone participating shares in the ownership of whatever the structure’s intention is. Along with community building and in the business environment this template for ‘getting something done’ applies with team work with corporations, circles of men and women, families and with personal relationships. It even applies with your relationship with yourself when you make your intellect, intuition and emotional system have equal validity in your self inquiry.

Community Building

What Have I Done to Empower Women?

In one of my groups It was asked, “What have you done to empower women?” As I can do, I waxed passionate :). I realize that what I answered is pretty core in all my consulting work. So here is my answer..Comment, share and like at will!

What have I done to empower women?

Acceptance

It’s Okay to Say No: How to make the…

Often we feel pressure (from inside and out) to say yes to everything, but it’s important to remember that it’s okay to say no. Not only is it OK, it is imperative to have the ‘No’ response to an inquiry as a very valid option! The thing is you see, if you come from a family belief system that values their members to ‘make nice’ or ‘think of others BEFORE you think of yourself’, allowing ‘No’ to be a valid response to a request or an invitation will seem something like a betrayal of a foundational value.

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Will I Be Mine? A Valentine’s Day Inspiration

Are you are your own worst critic?

New Year’s Resolutions that Actually Work

Embrace the Dark: How To Take Advantage of Winter…

How Gratitude Can Build a Positive Foundation in Your…

Three Tools to Manage Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life

God Be With the Mother: One parent’s story of…

Summer Opportunity

Building a Collaborative Community: Lessons from Geese

What Have I Done to Empower Women?

It’s Okay to Say No: How to make the…

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