Performance-based self-love is ineffective and harmful. If we are to create a world full of peace, we must start within.
Category: Compassion
Breathe and Everything Changes
Yoga is a process through which we can release the stored tension.
Boundaries
Without the Values and Belief Fence, our hearts begin to resemble a flophouse, where anyone and anything goes
Walls
Love is a verb, and we need to exercise it. But we can’t if our walls are up.
Building Bridges
Respecting the differences and actively, intentionally creating connection, allows us work and live together more fluidly.
Stress Reduction
Last night I was talking to my husband about feeling emotions as they come up and not carrying them with you day to day. It got me to thinking about what the Apostle Paul said about not letting the sun set on your anger. A lot of times that verse is interpreted as not going […]
Grace
A young woman majoring in philosophy at the local college, simply would not accept the premise that anyone would receive grace. Mostly because her world view prohibits receiving anything that you don’t deserve. Her whole premise is that you only get what you deserve. If you do bad things, then you deserve to reap the […]
Trauma
Trauma is personal. It can be anything. It doesn’t have to be as dramatic as others’. It’s how it affects YOU.
Take it to the Mat
When the junk is oozing like sticky tar out of its deep hidey-hole I take it to the mat.
Compassionate Curiosity
My colleague said, “That’s why I didn’t want to do it that way, Because I didn’t want_______.” His reasons were valid but inconsequential. The thing had already been done, and neither one of us could undo it. And in the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t that serious. In a few minutes, we would both […]
