I’ve spent the last week revisiting my ontological coaching training in preparation for teaching as part of Michael Neill’s Supercoach Academy. My, that is a serious-sounding sentence. What it means is I’ve been rolling deeply (yes, somewhat like a pig in poop) in the idea that it’s not anything out “there” that determines your choices, [...]

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At my retreats, we’re working with the phrase, “I am here.” On Saturday’s retreat, we coupled “I am here” with all kinds of experiences: yoga (lead by the wonderful Brandie Werner), feeling into our feet, back, hands, head and heart (also known as centering), visualization, we even said it while savoring chocolate. I am here. [...]

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I’m a retreat-creating permission-to-be yourself whirly-gig girl these days. The holy gap that is a retreat is where I’m living much of the time these days. It feels like the world is revealing itself to me, at the same time, it is holding its breath. This state is ticklishly delightful and prickly painful. It’s like [...]

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There is an emptiness that comes to me when I am finished leading a retreat. A scrubbed out-ness. Hollowed out. Pumpkin after scraping before carving. It’s an odd feeling, not bad at all, but if I don’t ground myself, and have a lot of awareness, I start pounding chocolate. I wish I could sum up [...]

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