6 Reasons Why I’m Quitting Social Media

By the time you open this email, I will have left ALL social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram) I had a presence on. This was not some knee-jerk reaction. I enjoyed these platforms as long as I felt a resonance there. But about six weeks ago, I began to feel a lot of bitterness around it. It…

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Why I Love My Morning Practice

Throughout my twenties and thirties, I woke up in the morning and just fell into my day. There was no uplifting thought or intention with which I began my day. But all that changed when I hit my forties and experienced a deeply profound transformation: my beloved Amma’s death. In the years since, my morning practice has become…

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My New Podcast: Being Fully Me

A few years ago I hosted a podcast called The Grammar of Grief. After many episodes of inviting guests and also sharing my own wisdom and reflections, it felt right to retire it. The podcast bug bit me again about a year ago. But now the market was saturated. I had no desire to add to the noise. I wanted…

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A Mother Wound Affects Everything

You and your mother were one organism until you emerged from her womb. Everything she felt, you felt. Everything she lacked, you lacked. Everything she feared, you feared. It’s almost impossible to step into your full feminine power without healing your mother wound.  Here’s how an unhealed mother wound affects every area of your life: WORK: You…

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How A Mother Wound Limits Your Life

The first thing I want to say to you is this. You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s not your fault. What happened to you happened because your mother was carrying severe unhealed trauma when she was carrying you, or when you were little. Even though it was not your fault, you ended up carrying the pain that limits…

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The Mother Of All Wounds

When we come into “matter” it is our mother that we meet first. She is our first home. She is our first relationship. She is our introduction to life. As we swim in her amniotic fluid for nine long months, mother-and-child are ONE single unit. We feel everything she feels. When she’s distracted, we think…

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Do You Know Who You Are?

In my previous blog, I shared that The Self is the focus of 2023. When you add up the individual numbers of 2023 you get 7 (2+0+2+3). Numerology says the energy of 7 is what we will feel this year. 7 is all about Soul Searching. When we engage in soul-searching, the two most important…

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Go Slowly and Gently into 2023

In my 30’s and 40’s I bought into the whole New Year, New Me idea. I believed the beginning of a new year was the significant event that would change my life. New Years, new moons, new trends, they come and go. The only real shifts that happen happen on the inside. And they can happen even when everything in the outside world…

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My Top 5 Values Going Into 2023

As a year draws to a close, it feels important to review my values. What needs to stay and what needs to go? Are there new values that want to come in? I spent a lot of time thinking, feeling into, contemplating, and journaling before I knew what my top 5 values are going into…

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5 Tips to Stay Calm during the Holidays

November and December, for many, are trigger months. Having to be with family for Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays can bring up old hurts, reopen wounds, and sometimes confirm how we don’t belong where we took root. The need for self-care takes on fresh significance in the season of shopping and planning and baking. If…

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