We are closing on the end of a very challenging year.  Many institutions we have always trusted have been under attack.  This can bring up […]

There are so many layers connected with holidays.  It is easy to feel the demands of the past and the present.  It is a time […]

We have been experiencing very loud and visual tragedies recently.  It is easy to respond to these incidents by going to fear or anger within […]

There is a great life skill which allows you to hold a line between your deeper feelings and sensitivities and the behavior of people and […]

Much of what we believe about being happy is not true.  Most of what we believe about being happy is based on a system of […]

Sometimes we treat blame like a bouncing ball.  We want to get it into someone else’s court and when we do, we feel relieved.  Unfortunately […]

So much of what we have been taught is about responding to the demands of other people and other situations that it is easy to […]

So much unhappiness is caused by the never-ending push to prove your own worth.  It is so important to be clear about who you are […]

We live in times where outrageous things are presented as reasonable and outrageous people are presented as viable.  In these circumstances we must be very […]

For every thought you think and for every action you take, you are feeding a belief, whether healthy or unhealthy.  We cannot perfectly monitor everything, […]

When we become conscious, we become conscious of many things.  Some of those things are light and some of them are dark.  It is challenging […]

Emotional states are often controlled by conditional beliefs.  If I believe that I can only be happy if someone else behaves a certain way, then […]

Pain is a part of being human.  We experience varying degrees of pain in our lives.  While pain must be processed so that it can […]

When we are pulled by any one aspect of the path, it is difficult to honor that aspect but also to know that there are […]

There is so much going on in the rapidly changing world around us.  That change is unsettling, both inside and outside.  The changes allow us […]