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I'm always startled when I have a client state, "You struggle?!  You just seem to have it put together and figured out.  I assumed nothing was wrong in your life."  This happened yesterday.  I smiled and replied "I'm a human being just like you,...

I was proud of myself today. Living in the Vail Valley, skiing is a big deal and powder days even bigger.  Saturday we awoke to a surprise that Vail ski resort received nine inches of snow.  So, the decision was to change the original plan to skin (climb up...

Over the past few weeks, the holiday season, I was aware of how much I truly need (mind, body and spirit) to slow down.  Since my yoga teacher training in March and April of this past year, things have started to slow down naturally with a daily sadhana. My...

Is it this time of year – dark, cold, body calling for hibernation…Is it the holidays – as an adult avoiding family contact, not wanting to choose, easier to do my own thing and now family is close, so time to change habits…Is it my process – the deeper I go, the less...

After watching a wonderfully well done movie, "You're Not You," and many tears shed for the beauty the love portrayed, poetic prose sprung into my mind.What Is Love?Love is seeing beauty everywhere.Honoring what ISand the joy, pain, sorrowcompletelybecause it IS.Love...

I had a discovery today.It came while reading an excerpt by Thich Nhat Hanh in the most recent “Shambhala Sun” magazine.                “One day a friend coaxes you into getting away for a...

I have been practicing saying this most of my life as I have strived to go against the “should” of being a female in American society: strive to educate yourself and get a job, but make sure that you still find Mr. Right and have kids, preferably a couple of...

When I was living in India, I was filled with words, descriptions, images that wanted to flow out on the paper.  I blogged, I kept a small journal to write things down when travelling and my mind was thinking like I was writing.  Upon returning to the US, I...

I just had more of an understanding click inside of myself about ahimsa (non-violence).  I watched the movie Captain Richards.  It’s a movie depicting Captain Richard’s experience in having his cargo ship taken over by a group of Somali pirates.  The...

As a mental health counselor, I encounter on a daily basis how expectations directly fuel our behaviors, emotions and thoughts.  Personally, one of my biggest lessons about expectations came from an expectation of how I felt my father "should" act, which fueled...