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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Next month at the Comfort Cafe the amazing Jill Badonsky will be our WisdomExpert (a person who comes in from the big world and helps us e-x-p-a-n-d our understanding) and right now, she’s doing a blog tour for her new book Awe-Manic: A Daily Dose of Wonder which I utterly adore! Here’s a brief noodling [...]

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Each time I begin to create a retreat, I start to thrum with creative energy and ponder the wonderful question, How can I truly inspire you to love yourself more deeply than ever and allow that love to help you to create a life you love?” After 18 years of writing and living and talking [...]

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Let me say right at the beginning this is an experiment.  I may not want to do it every week. I may forget. Nobody may play. And that’s okay. Choosing Your Life Monday is an invitation to name what pattern you will lovingly notice this week. As you may know from this post I recently set [...]

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