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In your thanks-giving, I hope you connect deeply to this earth, feel grateful for your journey on it, and rest into your heart. Gratitude is such an easy thing to forget in our stressful lives, [...]

In a meadow beside the Clackamas River, I stepped into a huge circle of red rose petals. I wasn’t alone. Entering the circle with me were 70 others, including the parents of Hunter, the [...]

  Have you ever done a “body scan” to meditate or relax? I like connecting to the body, but that’s not my favorite term: A body scan seems like glancing at the headlines to get the story. [...]

Stephanie did things “right.” She followed the sleep hygiene rules to the letter—regulating her sleep time, using her bed just for sleep, etc. Even after several months, none of that helped. She [...]

We’re driving again! During the last 14 pandemic* months, I put all of a thousand miles on my car. And there was no traffic when I did. But now I’m out buying garden stuff, visiting people, [...]

Can a poem change your life? This one did for me. Luna Jaffe (financial planner, artist, poet, and more) helped me see how my “non-essential” values and efforts have created true wealth: To care [...]

Did you have a lullaby to fall asleep? My kids did, we sang them “Tender Shepherd” or “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” It might serve you to have one as a grown-up, too. Especially if you’re like my [...]

I don’t need to tell you, you already know… from the news, Twitter posts, family discussions. It arises in your shallow breathing, anxious thoughts at 3 AM, clenched teeth, apathy towards daily [...]

Life can get really distorted with stress. It could “just” be mental overload – non-stop thinking or non-stop forgetting. Or stress may create internal photo filters, but instead of [...]

Are you taking a new look at your life with the new year? You won’t find much room for creating or letting go until you honor what’s served you.  The morning of New Year’s Eve, I was [...]