Have you been feeling it? That late November swirl? Time winding up, like a jack-in-the-box, set to pop soon? Holiday songs slipping into rotation on the radio? All the department stores poised, with their perfectly stacked displays of gift ideas?

It’s the calm before the storm.

My anticipation is laced…

I was reading about near-death experiences and about how, in the context of healing, if they’re simulated, they can be catalysts for helping people get ultra clear on their values and what they really, truly want to do with the rest of their lives.

But my first thought was: if…

I keep a quote from Marianne Williamson on my desk: “Your only real problem is that you’ve forgotten who you are.”

And below it, another quote from the teacher Abraham: “You are joy, looking for a way to express.”

They feel like birds answering each other across the expanse of…

This week, I found myself negotiating with myself.

I was running late putting my weekly newsletter together and I thought about skipping it. I had legitimate reasons and besides, I thought, the fate of the world doesn’t hinge on my little weekly newsletter.

The Ego loves to do this.

It…

Last week I was away on a self imposed writer’s retreat in the city. I wasn’t going to announce it at first. I wanted to keep a low profile and hold my nose firmly to the grindstone. …

One winter, when I was a student in New York City, I took a train home to Boston in a snowstorm.

At one point, in Connecticut, conditions were so bad, everyone had to get off the train and wait until the tracks were cleared enough that continuing on would be…

Codependency is not our natural state. It’s a LEARNED behavior. And by this same token: we can unlearn it, too.

Any behavior we take part in which hurts us emotionally or physically is against our true nature.

Look at a baby. Babies understand anger. They understand pain. They understand longing…

Isn’t it interesting to consider that the only difference between “dread” and “dream” is a single letter?

What other possible realities in our lives are only separated by a hair?

A trick of the Ego is to make things complex when in truth, a tiny nudge can radically change everything.

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