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Grace and Ease

Grace and Ease

These days my #1 goal is cultivating inner peace. Nothing else is nearly as important. I’ve gotten to the point of my life where I realize that it’s not what’s going on but how I react to what’s going on that makes all the difference in the world.

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Do Your Spiritual Beliefs Sustain You?

Do Your Spiritual Beliefs Sustain You?

My spiritual beliefs saved me when all I could do was lay in the dark depressed and watch a candle burn. They gave me sustenance in moments of greatest fear. And they gave me the inspiration and faith to keep going, to heal my childhood traumas, and to create the life of my dreams.

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Are You Living Your Passion and Purpose?

Are You Living Your Passion and Purpose?

I write this in route from Paris to Riga, Latvia (where we will just hang out for a few days to get to know a new part of the world) to Tallinn, Estonia to Plum Village for a weeklong family mindfulness retreat in Bordeaux.

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Dream Trip to Paris

Dream Trip to Paris

I’m in Paris for a mother-daughter trip with my oldest who turns sixteen soon. I promised her this trip for her 16th birthday as we sat around eating an after-school snack eight years ago and sixteen still seemed so far away.

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Making a Big Move

Making a Big Move

Have you ever felt really nervous about a big move? After nearly 7 years of living in house in a town in the Colombian Andes, I will be moving with my family to an apartment in Bogota, a bustling, traffic ridden capital city of over 8 million people.

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This Can Change Your Relationship

This Can Change Your Relationship

Are you struggling in your primary relationship, partnership or marriage? Or have you been “burned” so many times that you’re afraid to even get into a serious relationship?I have been with my husband for 25 years and I can definitely confirm that having a close, intimate relationship take A LOT OF WORK.

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This Technique Blew My Mind!

This Technique Blew My Mind!

Have you ever learned a new healing modality or tool and wondered how you ever lived without it before? That’s what happened to me this past weekend. I learned TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) and IT BLEW MY MIND!

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4 Ways to Unblock the Flow of Abundance

4 Ways to Unblock the Flow of Abundance

Do you find it easier to give than to receive? I know I do. I’ve become way better over the years. I ask for help when I need it. I set clear boundaries when I can’t or simply don’t want to do something,

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