Saturday – A One Day Virtual Retreat

This Saturday, April 25th, I’m offering a one day Virtual Retreat with three interactive sessions. I’ll provide the structure and support for you to get true rest, deep renewal and a hit of inspiration without having to travel or take time away from your life.

The one-day retreat includes a 25-page How To Create Your Own Virtual Retreat e-book.

You can also buy all the mini-retreats from January’s big Virtual Retreat: Finding Calm, Confidence and Contentment no Matter What. I’ve included lots of ways to mix and match these retreat sessions to create different retreats. These recordings will only be available through Saturday.

Comfort Cafe members get the one-day Virtual Retreat for free.

The Self-Care Minder

Spring is singing its siren song in my ear right about now.

I want to play!
I don’t want to work (pout, stamp foot).

But I have to!

Who says?

One of the places I get stuck — perhaps you do too? Is in believing I have to make myself do things I don’t feel like doing.

I have to stick with the plan, the to-do list, the have tos and musts or I will never do anything again.

I am not allowed to want what I want when I want it.

Yet I know that when I force myself to move ahead when there is no desire, I move slower, make more mistakes, get less done, and most of all, I don’t enjoy myself.

If do this long enough, I lose my joy for life. I start to hate my life because nothing feels enjoyable.

I start to believe I don’t desire anything.

Creativity and inspiration leave the building and dullness and gripped buttocks enter.

At my retreats at Kripalu, we explored Desire. I riffed off the section in The Life Organizer and we journaled, made desire collages, and did free speaks (like free writes) about what our heart’s most desire. One beautiful young woman had a major breakthrough about the puzzle of her life. She’d been trying to “fit everything together” and when she realized what she really desired, suddenly what she needed to do was completely obvious — scary but obvious. She wrote me this morning that had acted on her insight and “would never look at desire the same way again.” She is on fire!

I want to trust desire like that. I have before. I want to again.

I want to trust that what I hear when I ask “What would I love to do next?” will guide me and I will still be able to pay the bills and tend my daughter and create good stuff. Maybe not weed the garden or clean the windows but who cares?

I want to trust that if my mood says, “Nothing! I hate the world” and my desire says, “I want to write my novel (I started a new one — gulp) I can follow desire even if anxiety wants to come along for the ride.

I want to trust my desire even when my time monsters and shadow comforts are screaming, “What you really want to do is check email and eat nut crackers! It’s too scary to do what you really want!”

I want to trust myself to listen to what I need and to give it to myself.

How about you?

Comfort Resources

The Life Organizer

The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder by Jill Badonsky

My most recent blog post

Comfort Wishes

I wish you the courage to look Desire
in the eye
to not
lash yourself to mast when she whispers her sweet inspirations

because perhaps the Sirens weren’t the bad girls Homer made them about to be?
Perhaps you won’t wreck the ship of your life if you allow yourself
to want what you want
and even
to have it sometimes.

What would you love to do next?

Related posts:

1. Desire, Mood and Shoulds
2. Spring Love
3. Deepest Desire
4. Spring Swooning with What is Real
5. Desire Vs. Mood