This is what a re-birth looks like — How many times have you talked yourself into the “best-case scenario” only to have it turn out to be the “worst-case scenario?” I don’t know how we do it, but we do. We think we know best. …

We should all live this gloriously — There is no easy way to say this. Not gracefully anyway. We are terrible at taking vacations. As a species. As mothers. As partners. As friends. The idea of really being on vacation and letting the world bend to us is now foreign. And why is that? …

Keep climbing! — Ahhh…Nirvana. That blessed state of being. Sorry guys…I’m not talking about the rock band, Nirvana, but the Sanskrit term which, when taken at face value, means the end of personal suffering. This is from the Encyclopedia Britannica: It is used to refer to the extinction of desire, hatred, and ignorance…

Take these four steps when you’re ready to begin a shift toward balancing the masculine and feminine within — Women will always find themselves thrown against a wall — and I’ll call this wall difficulty — when encountering masculine energies. Instead of being given a chance to find our way up and over that wall, maybe to solve our own problems, we stumble over a masculine being that thwarts…

Too many stories about quitting Medium are suddenly popping up — I made the mistake of reading one story about a desire to quit Medium. Now I’m inundated. My feed is flooded. It's not a bad thing. It’s simply real emotion spilling out on the page. But it is interesting how easy it has become to feel like quitting — across…

Let’s not fall into the trap of conventionality — Earth is a duality. She is hot as she is cold. She is black as she is white. And no doubt, she is temperamental and volatile, as she is stoic and majestic. These are the characteristics, certainly the vocabulary words we might use to describe the planet, and in turn…