Move out of Pain and into Love
August 7, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Yesterday I was playing with my 4-year-old daughter, Sabina, and she cheerfully stated “I love Sabina!” To which I replied, “Me too! What do you love about Sabina?” She said, “I love that she is funny and her cute little butt.” This made me laugh and melt. What genius children possess. Loving ourselves and our bodies is our natural state, but somehow, somewhere along the line, we often lose sight of this. There are numerous… Read More >
Letting Love Shine In From All Sources
July 23, 2012
By Guest Blogger
One of the most awesome things about love is that there are so many different kinds. The love we feel for family, friends, pets, fellow human beings we don’t even know, ourselves, those we’re in love with, those we used to be in love with, and on and on. With all this love around us and in us, it’s amazing that somehow it seems so easy to let troubles within the realm of our romantic… Read More >
Crazy Sexy Diet: The New Love of My Life
July 16, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Navigating my thirties as a mostly single gal has been a challenge to say the least. There are many days that I feel like Bridget Jones and have reflected her habits accordingly. There have also been numerous late night conversations (and drinks, etc.) with my sister and friends who are in the same boat, and we just can’t seem to figure out where all the good ones are! After discovering Kris Carr from her beautiful… Read More >
Love, MS and Letting go: a Discourse on the Heart (with a List to Match!)
June 12, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Love … Gorgeous love. We all crave it. We’re all terrified of losing it. We all struggle through the moments when we feel we don’t deserve it. We’re all capable of giving it … and receiving it. At times, it seems to vanish. We wonder why love has left us. But it never does … Love is expansive and complex. I grew up in a tough household. Out of some misguided belief that too many… Read More >
Fill Yourself Up From the Inside
June 8, 2012
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
Fabulous and fresh thinker — Do you know how to love yourself and feel loved each and every day, in a consistent way? Definition of self-love: You loving you, so you can love the world more. I’m inviting you to live like a “full cup of self-love, sharing the overflow with the world,” and not like a half-empty cup trying to get filled. And when you do feel half-empty, to use your transformational practices and… Read More >
Healing With Love
May 29, 2012
By Guest Blogger
After 20 years in family practice, and the last 10 years of an integrated approach, I now wonder if all healing can occur from a space of true, compassionate and unconditional love. Can love truly heal all illness? Can love heal depression? Chronic fatigue? Multiple sclerosis? Diabetes? Anxiety? Obesity? Can love heal every ailment we hear of in medicine? I feel it can. I now work teaching people how to release and allow true love… Read More >
I’m Getting Married.
May 11, 2012
By Jen Louden
I’m getting married. Me, getting married. We met four years ago on Match.com. (His sister met her husband on Match too. Wild!) Both of us were simply looking for someone to have dinner with, maybe go for a hike. We’d both been on Match for a couple of weeks and were not digging it – it felt like person shopping and made us feel a little icky – so we were about to sign off… Read More >
Lessons from a Mustang
March 27, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Thera is 16 years old. She is small in stature and a rich golden color with black markings on her legs, shoulders and ear tips. Her tail is a long, thick mass of darkness that swirls with the wind. Her black mane has moonlight threads of silver running through it. She bears the government stamp of a mustang on her neck. Eight years ago, Thera was rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management from… Read More >
Love’s Rules to Living Life
March 26, 2012
By Guest Blogger
There will always come a moment in our lives where we ponder the question, “Why does this work for others and not for me?” This moment is often closely followed by our cry of, “What the heck!” Then we might try to force ourselves into fitting into a mold that we deem acceptable and appropriate. Who can we really blame for creating all these rules and regulations about how life should look? We can call out… Read More >
Follow Your Heart Instead of Your Head
March 23, 2012
By Tama Kieves
Want the best year of your life? Then follow a tour guide that’s on fire. Get out of your mind and into your passion. Get affected. It’s where you long to go and where you belong. This year, follow your heart – instead of your head. Most of us have been taught that it’s “safer and more practical” to listen to our heads instead of our hearts. I’ll tell you otherwise. The mind makes rational… Read More >
6 Techniques to Turn Disasters into Diamonds
March 20, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I was widowed at 27. I had a 1-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son. And I hadn’t worked a day in my life. My finances were a complete disaster, and I suffered from depression, too. Yet, through it all, I vowed that my burdens would not become my children’s, and thankfully I succeeded beyond my expectations. And you can succeed too, if you consider the following six gems I learned over the past 11 years:… Read More >
Live Your Truth, Love Your Life
March 6, 2012
By Terri Cole
In my 15 years as a therapist in NYC and LA, the inability to communicate authentically and truthfully was one of the most common issues for clients. This leads to living “in-authentically” with low satisfaction and high frustration levels. More importantly, it is impossible to fulfill your dharma (life’s purpose) if you cannot access your authentic self. I have partnered with Ashley Turner, a rock star yoga psychologist and instructor in LA, who has also… Read More >
Be Willing To Suck (At It)
February 27, 2012
By Guest Blogger
My father once told me that God gave me the talent to be an artist. Art was my passion. My dream was to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts in fiber arts. My work during those college years was presented in a show and is in a book about handmade felt. Oh, how I could get lost in that creative place for hours, days, weeks and months! But I gave up my desire to be… Read More >
Dance With Your Distractions; Rock Your Message
January 17, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Do you know the ADD love song? I love you; oh I love you. La la la. You’re so beautiful. … Is that a quarter? Between your to-do list and that pile of papers over there, can you see that great idea you have? That’s the one that’s going to change everything. Or it won’t. At this rate, you’re never going to find out. How are you supposed to get anywhere when you spend your… Read More >
2011: A Good Year
December 29, 2011
By Rolf Gates
I have had a good year. The fact of it keeps surprising me because I am so used to problems. And recently I have been experiencing longer and longer stretches without problems. Life just seems to be unfolding without them. In their place have been a lot of things to appreciate. Not only have things felt really fun and worthwhile, I have also not had the sense that sometime soon the other shoe will drop… Read More >
Sweat With Love: Three Ways to Rejuvenate Your Workout
December 5, 2011
By Guest Blogger
God, do I love to dance. I love the way music feels in my body. It’s like the boom, boom ka of a drumbeat calls my cells to celebrate, which call to my bones, which call to my muscles, and before you know it, I am movin’ and groovin’ with pure abandonment. I loved to dance so much that, in 4th grade, I decided that was it. Move over Jennifer Beals: There’s a new flash… Read More >
Why Dogs Are Better Than Therapy
November 22, 2011
By Peggy Drexler PhD
Petting dogs has been proven to be good for health. It was one of those days in our house where an argument was hanging in the air like a gas leak — just waiting for a spark. Like most houses, the combustion — when it inevitably came — was not the kind that lifts the roof off. More like a sustained rumble of muttered asides and one-word answers. Then my daughter walked in and asked… Read More >
My Sister’s Hand in Mine
September 20, 2011
By Guest Blogger
It’s December 2010. My 74-year-old mother had just made it through her grueling battle with stage-2, aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer. She had her lumpectomies, her radiation, her chemo, and she had come up clean. She had tested negative for the gene that my sister and I could have potentially inherited, so I wasn’t particularly worried when the doctor found a lump in my cystic right breast that very week. But as fate would have it,… Read More >
Turn Your Attention to the Arrow in Your Heart
September 15, 2011
By Guest Blogger
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart and relate to the wound. -Pema Chodron Human nature is a curious and often paradoxical thing. We often act with compassion toward others who are suffering but never consider doing the same for ourselves. We have a… Read More >
The Missing Link
August 16, 2011
By Rolf Gates
The connection between compassion and human happiness is woven into all of the great spiritual traditions. The Buddha, the Yoga Sutras and Jesus Christ were all quite specific about it (to name a few). The cultivation of gentleness and compassion for others and ourselves has the capacity to set our minds and our hearts free. Wow. That’s big. Unfortunately, it also appears to have been buried in the fine print of human civilization. Or maybe… Read More >
