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I am a Star Wars fan, so I am watching The Mandalorian on Disney+. There are some really intriguing things happening in season three, including Grogu (baby Yoda) having his own pint-sized viewing bubble inside Mando’s starship. But one thing that stays the same is the way the traditional Mandalorian express their ideals and creed: This is the Way. One of the most visible parts of this creed is to not take one’s helmet off (except when alone). The helmet is a symbol of the strength and courage …

You know it’s time to let go when you hit a wall and it hurts so much you have to release the struggle. At that point you realize you are strong enough to face the emotions and circumstances that kept you holding on. 

It is a mystery why letting go often takes such a long time but for sure it will come and at just the right time for you to trust you can handle what happens next. 

I finally got to see the movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and so much of it is about the challenge of letting g…

I started out this year on January 2 with lots of energy for diving back into my work and enthusiasm for embracing a new year and whatever it might bring. I felt open and free. After a few days of some challenges (internal and external), the old friend self-judgment whispering I was not doing enough or should be farther along, and some trembling in the force for good in the world I was drained and off balance.

I re-gained my perspective and sense of being grounded on this earth, belonging and t…

We are now in that challenging and delicious time of darkness and more time indoors. This can also be a beautiful time of going deep within ourselves to discover what we are longing for and wanting to create as the cycle turns soon to more light and a new year. The winter solstice on December 21 and the days leading up to it and after is the perfect time to discern what your inner wisdom is revealing about the coming year of 2023.

Clarity

The first key to setting up an awesome 2023 is getting …

As I write this, we are about to experience a powerful lunar eclipse (a blood moon in this case) and the midterm elections in the United States of America. Both events affect us because we are energetically connected to nature and to the energy dynamics of our country. A lunar eclipse can represent an ending of some kind in our life but also provides an opportunity for transformation and evolution. We are going to be feeling the effects from the eclipse and the midterms for a while and it is a p…

The to-do list is ubiquitous, and the reason is obvious. We like to have a way to track the myriad things we need to and want to get done. However, an undifferentiated to-do list is not helpful and in fact it can bring our energy down just to look at it. It is more powerful to start your day focusing on your intentions. Each day decide and declare how you want to show up in love and service and what you would like to experience that day, rather than looking at a mountain of things to do.

We are…

There have been times in my life when I felt like someone, or a situation, was keeping me from receiving something sorely and even sometimes desperately needed by me. When we are in that place of looking outside of ourselves, we can feel very vulnerable and out of control.

I had a client who felt that her boss disrespected her and was a terrible communicator. From her point of view, this could hold back her career and she was resentful. This perspective on the situation interfered with her gett…

No question about it, we are in some challenging times. All of us on some levels are experiencing great upheaval, uncertainty, and change. There is no use pretending that we can go back to what life was like at some other time - say before Covid started in 2020 or even before 2016, a time of seismic political shifts in the United States. All of us have experienced loss in recent years so wanting to go back to those pre times can make sense from that perspective.

Yet though change can be excruci…

A poem I love from the Buddhist monk and author Thich Nhat Hanh is “Drink Your Tea:”

Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
As if it is the axis
On which the earth revolves
Slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future;
Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.

How would life change for the better if we could do this more often in our work lives? The poem is a great reminder that we can intend that more moments in life are fully lived in because the reality is that life is happ…

One tool that can serve us well as we navigate our lives is to plan for success but to do it in partnership with the universe. I call this Universal Planning. This is going to look a lot different from most planning systems as those rely a lot on setting goals with our thinking faculty only and then achieving those goals with lots of effort and will. Effort and will can and do produce results. However, too much of them produce stress in mind, body, and spirit and often the results are challengin…