I remember feeling plagued with self doubt at the very beginning of launching my private coaching practice. I kept asking myself: “Am I ready?” Which also translated, through the lens of my Ego, into: “Am I worthy?” Which was another way of asking: “Who am I to coach other people…

Yesterday was Mother’s Day in the US. How was the day for you? Like the old saying goes: whatever we bring focus to in our lives expands. But when it comes to national holidays (or national events or big headlines in general), the focus of the collective is directed by…

Mahatma Gandhi wrote: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I think the same could be said for the way a nation treats its mothers. On a very personal level, I got a taste of judicial matricide during…

There’s a teaching in Buddhism about the difference between the finger pointing at the moon and the moon itself. This is a teaching which refers to our tendency as human beings to become IDENTIFIED with aspects of our experience which are not who we truly are.⠀ We say: “I’m mad” instead of…

When we don’t feel safe to express our authentic feelings, we are trapped. The need to express and the fear of expression can create an energetic stalemate within a person. Many of us grew up in households where anger was demonstrated in unhinged and destructive ways. We may have learned…

We aren’t here to save each other. There is no room for savior-ism in authentic love. Because when one person is trying to save the other, a hierarchy is established. Someone has the cookies and someone else doesn’t. …

I just finished reading Ashley C. Ford’s gorgeous memoir Somebody’s Daughter. In one of the passages she talks about a realization she had, at a certain point in her adolescence, that a person can manage their disappointments by managing their wants. In other words: the way to avoid disappointment is…

At the end of my marriage, I saw a sex therapist. Not as a last ditch attempt to save the relationship but in the interest of trying to understand my own libido — which is LIFE FORCE ENERGY — and to shift it out of dormancy into aliveness again. I…

I’ve been feeling quiet lately. Maybe my inner winter season is slightly out of sync with the calendar year’s. Even though signs of spring are popping up early here in New York right now, I’ve been in a very cocoon-y place: reading old journals, pouring through the stack of books…