When you are lost in the woods

I’ve been slowly integrating the energy from the last Akashic Records study group call, and it’s been deliciously healing! We all showed up with huge questions, but when we connected to the Akashic Records as a group, we quickly found common ground, and the guidance each person brought forth resonated with each individual. Read more…

Choosing grace

A few weeks ago I started feeling myself in some whirling energy and when I checked with my Akashic Records I was shown a whirlpool and given the word “roiling.” That’s not a word I drop in my everyday language but it hit me viscerally, and I recognized the roiling Read more…

Perfection not progress

Excerpt from Louise Penny’s latest Inspector Gamache novel, Glass Houses. “Progress not perfection.” Here’s a phrase—apparently with roots in AA—that gets bandied around to inspire people to take things one day at a time, moment by moment. Instead of pushing for a perfect end goal, we rejoice in our micro Read more…

Doing the work

Yesterday I wrote that healing is best approached from an empowered and empowering stance. No one is here to “fix” or “save” anyone else, and if you go around propping up your sense of self worth trying to do this work for others, it’s a sign to turn inward and find Read more…

Happiness

I’ve been helping a private client connect to her heart, and one of the skills we were working on is discovering our truest desires. Sometimes we can barely admit to ourselves what these are, or we figure “why bother” because they seem so unattainable. For this client, the desire was happiness. Read more…

Disconnection

Here’s a small sign that you’ve disconnected from yourself: You’re in a group trying to decide where to eat and you’re like, “Wherever you want.” Maybe you’re thinking “I’m easy.” And that’s fine. But if you get to the restaurant and scan the menu and can’t figure out what you Read more…

Follow your heart

Here’s a cliché that’s so often misunderstood. “Follow your heart” does not mean hold onto the people who break your heart because you love them and deep down you see the goodness of their soul. “Follow your bliss” does not mean “do what makes you happy,” or that you have Read more…