How things and people look can present problems when you want to know how things really are. It is not negative to notice how something looks but to understand that that is not necessarily what is true.

Good boundaries make a safe place for a person to grow and flourish. The most important boundaries are the ones we make for ourselves.

The troublesome times in which we live are made troubled in large part by the lies we are fed. There have always been lies, but we are living in times where those lies are not identified and the liars made accountable.

Both love and fear have magnetic qualities. We are now living in a world where fear runs rampant. The challenging part of this time is learning to leave the fear around us on the outside.

Power structures gone wrong seem to be so loud that we often feel we will be overcome by them. There is no question that damage is done by that kind of structure, but the wisdom is to focus on your personal power.

There is a great pressure to embrace the truth of some people and situations without knowing your own truth. When you see what is true for you and you notice that others do not see it that way, it can be uncomfortable.

We are in a time where power is being misused, truth is being made insignificant and abuse is falling on areas of life which should be protected. In this moment, we may not be able to stop these things from happening, so the question arises, what can we do?

We are living in a time when we need to practice knowing, but not attaching to, many issues. We need to know about issues in the world and in ourselves in order to choose good responses to those issues. We do not need to attach to those issues or to their outcomes because we can be hurt or disempowered in our emotional responses. While our energy counts, it does not control.

When the experience of the year you have lived through has heaviness as well as lightness, we want to focus on releasing the heaviness. What we carry with us, emotionally as well as mentally, has the power to attract more of the same. That is why it is important to choose to focus on the events of the year for which we can be grateful.

We are sometimes challenged by making both of these truths work together. Because we are connected does not mean that we are all alike.