7 Ways to Get Through Your Emotions
We are emotional beings; despite the degree to which you acknowledge your emotions, you still feel them, and they impact you. Some of us are more skilled in being able to name them, feel them without fear of feeling, and even know what to do to help us through the...
Thinking About Making Some Changes This New Year?
Have you ever made a new year’s resolution that you were really excited about? If you have, then you are one of millions of people who have done the same…but be honest with yourself – did you stick to it? Well, no shame or judgement because an enormous amount of...
This Is Our New Normal
Remember getting ready for the first day of school? Shopping for new clothes, getting the backpack all ready, picking out a new lunch bag, and of course have fun buying and organizing new school supplies. (New school supplies are the best, aren't they??) Every...
Mindfulness is Super Simple; It’s Just Not Easy
One of my taglines about mindfulness is that “it’s easier said than done.” I think it applies to almost all aspects of cultivating and maintaining a mindfulness practice. Well it also applies to almost all things in life period. But here’s the thing about...
Parenting During Difficult Times
Parenting is always hard, but parenting during Covid has brought some new challenges. Covid, sheltering-in-place, and kids being out of school has hit us all in different ways. For some it’s brought great suffering, both physical, mental and emotional. For others,...
How to Go From Surviving to Thriving
May is Mental Health Awareness month, and what better time than now — in the midst of a global pandemic — than for us to bring awareness, and compassion, to our collective mental health. Typically, it can easy for someone to make lots of assumptions about another...
Relationships Are So Damn Hard
Relationships are hard Let me say that again. Relationships are so damn hard. And they are even harder during a pandemic! Everything that was under a flashlight of awareness is now under a floodlight of awareness. There is no hiding from what’s been seeping under the...
What You May Be Feeling is Depression…and That is Okay
Regardless of your family history, or your predisposition to depression, feeling depressed is something that I think we can all related to right now going through this pandemic. Depression is not just being in a bad mood or being sad or unmotivated. At the root of...
The Silver Lining of Coronavirus – 5 steps to creating lasting positive change
With the right mindset you can look for the benefits that can come from the coronavirus. Just as a rainbow can only be seen after the storm, there can be silver linings to our challenges right now...if you look for them! So at this time, we have an opportunity to...
How to Stay Calm During the 2020 Election
After the 2016 election, in addition to having an increase of clients coming in reporting "election anxiety" or "political anxiety", I also remember seeing a lot of articles pop up in my social media addressing the question of, “How am I going to deal with the...
The Time I Went to the ER in Paris
***I’m sharing this post to be authentic...life is not always the perfect posed pictures on FB*** (Originally posted on FB on June 24, 2019) I’ve just started week 3, of a 4-week European journey...Though I felt fine in Zurich and Rome, a cough I’d had for a few weeks...
Mothers and Daughters Around the World
Two years ago, I chaperoned a middle school field trip to LA for the WE Day conference. I didn’t know much about the organization ME to WE, that hosted the conference, but was quickly inspired. It was started by two teenage brothers 20 years ago because they wanted to...
My First Heart-Opener
The first I did a heart-opener, I burst into tears. I was at Esalen, which is a spiritual retreat center in Big Sur, and it literally is, hands-down, my most favorite place on earth. Nestled into an expansive property overlooking picturesque cliffs of the Pacific...
7 Tips to being a Patient Parent
I’ve always known I’d be a good mom. But I also used to have a lot of fears about parenting, like all the unknowns that I couldn’t control. In the beginning I felt unsure of what to do to be most effective and how to always stay calm. There were definitely some...
Don’t Change That Radio Station!
Don’t Change That Radio Station! I took my first mindfulness class a few years ago. Truth be told, I knew nothing about mindfulness when I signed up. Though serendipity led me to attend a 6-week introduction class, I was unaware that I was being...
Live Your Authentic Life
Live Your Authentic Life I took my first mindfulness class a few years ago. Truth be told, I knew nothing about mindfulness when I signed up. Though serendipity led me to attend a 6-week introduction class, I was unaware that I was being cosmically led...
How’s about some kindness, eh?
So, I’m guess we all share the same problem – that is the loud voice inside your head that tells you mean things, has a harsh tone of voice, criticizes you and treats you worse than your own worst enemy. Can you relate? Do you know what I’m talking about? Yup -it’s...
Warning ⚠️⚠️: Honest and vulnerable post up ahead
Please read with caution, as it may bring up your own shit along the way. Sorry, not sorry. I had a really beautiful vacation in Kauai. The pictures speak for themselves. I absolutely love it there!! It’s one of my happy places where I feel super connected to spirit,...
Do you ever feel stuck in your life?
My guess is that there have been times (or are currently) when you felt completely overwhelmed by what is going on in your life, and it feels almost too big to even begin to take action on how to get out of it and move forward. I’ve been there too, and I can relate to...
Send Love to Everyone this Valentine’s Day
One of my most favorite mindfulness practices is lovingkindness practice. In traditional Buddhist practice, this is called metta. It is the practice of extending well-wishes and thoughts of kindness to others. When thinking about sending out love, you might only think...
