It’s heeeeeeere. Christmas weekend, for those that celebrate. And I wasn’t going to post anything, but this hit me like a ton of bricks this morning, so I’m posting it now. What is it about the holidays that make us WANT to appreciate the beauty and the joy and the peace . . . but somehow instead we turn into…
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Don’t Forget the “CO” in “Co-Creation”
I have a confession to make. I kind of – well, no, I REALLY – hate “The Secret.” A lot. With the fiery passion of a thousand suns, even. That much. Why? Because it’s only a teeny, tiny part of the story: the part that our egos love to hear. The part that tells us anything we want is available…
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WTF is a Sacred Contract (and Why Should You Care)?
If you spend very much time in New Thought spirituality, eventually you’ll run across the idea of Sacred Contracts: the idea that before we’re even born, we choose our lessons and make agreements with other souls to help each other grow. Coming from a theatrical background, I have a picture in my mind’s eye of a giant green room –…
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If God is Like Music, What Station Are You Listening To?
I’ve been reading a lot of spiritual books (again) lately. I seem to go in cycles, where I inhale everything I can get my hands on, and then stop reading while everything processes. Lately I’ve been pondering the idea of Truth-with-a-capital-T. It seems to me that the Truth shows up everywhere, across religions and spiritual disciplines. Love each other. Forgive….
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Into the Woods
Title with apologies to Stephen Sondheim . . . 😉 Why do stories matter? Why do archetypal patterns MATTER? The stories we have in our culture (any culture) teach us about reality. They teach us how we’re “supposed” to be, what our culture considers “true” and “right.” And when you consider that our thoughts create our reality, you start to…
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The Beginning
A couple of years ago, in sheer desperation, I left behind the life I was “supposed” to be living. I was stressed out, depressed, and anxious. I was living in a city with a high cost of living, and had a job that paid well, but asked a lot in return. (And I wasn’t even that far up the corporate…
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