change – Aligning Within

New Years Eve Ritual

Whether or not you are going to a blow-out party on New Year’s Eve this year, here is a little ritual you can do for yourself or with others to ring in the new year with a little bit more gentleness and intention. Doing it ensures that whatever happens that night (and whether you can […]

Where Are You? (Dementia)

Where have you gone? Your disappearing All though your still here That you’ll forgot me Fills my with fear. I hold your hand Look into your eyes But no one looks back And my heart dies. All our yesterdays Wiped from your mind. I search for connections To draw you back home For a moment […]

Expressing Gratitude

Have you ever noticed that negative experiences tend to have a greater impact on you than positive ones? I was having a particularly bad day when I first had this realization. But once I did, I couldn’t get the idea out of my head. I started noticing how a stubbed toe would ruin my entire afternoon, but […]

Class of 2022

Class of 2022 Try not to lose sight of who you are, as you navigate this stressful time. You are the kids who went through one of history’s strangest educational times. The lockdown generation. Exams are not defining for anyone, but in your case, that is even more true. Because you are so much more. […]

The Message You Carry Matters

Words create worlds. Words speak life. Words inspire possibility into reality. Words have sticking power to become something in life. “I have a dream,” proclaimed Martin Luther King. Oprah shares on Super Soul Sunday, “In 1978 as a young woman when I began reciting Maya Angelou’s poem, Phenomenal Woman, over and over again, I didn’t believe […]

Regaining A New Start

At one time or another, most of us will encounter impossible circumstances: job loss, relationship break-up, economic struggles, loss of a loved one, physical trauma – the list goes on. They are defining moments in life that can either knock us down or make us stronger. While we can’t always control our circumstances (life’s curveballs […]

How to Stay Grounded When Your Life is Falling Apart

Your life is a journey with lots of stops along the way and if you could have some idea what to expect, at least some of the time, you might feel a lot better about the whole thing. The image of life as a journey is so much a part of our language that we […]

Signs of an Unhappy Relationship

It can be hard to admit, even to yourself, that you are not happy in your relationship with your partner. Whether it’s constant fights, a growing distance between the two of you, or just a gnawing feeling in your gut that something’s wrong, unhappiness can take different forms. This article examines the causes and effects […]

20 Beliefs You Will Gradually Let Go of Over the Next 20 Years

The afternoon always understands what the morning never even suspected. Every day. All the time. YOU are telling yourself a story right now. And this story is simply a collection of beliefs that ultimately makes you what you are – it lays the foundation for every action you take or don’t take in life. In […]

What We Don’t Want To See

The feelings that make us want to run away are buried treasure, full of energy and inspiration if we are willing to look. One of life’s great paradoxes is that the things we don’t want to look at in ourselves are the very things we need to look at to know ourselves better and […]