The Stories We Tell Ourselves Shape Our Lives
Shining a light of awareness onto the stories that guide your life is a choice that leads to freedom.
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Fulfilling Your Potential
Our ultimate quest is to fulfill the potential we contain within. Like seeds, we are born with the knowledge embedded within us that we...
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Developing a Healthy Relationship With Social Media
I’d venture to guess that I spend far more time considering the impacts of social media more than most people. I like to think it’s...
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A Year in a Yurt: Lessons on the Process of Becoming
For nearly a year beginning at the start of the Covid pandemic I lived in a yurt tucked within a canyon in rural Washington. It lay...
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What Is Conscious Living? The Power of Living With Awareness
Conscious living invites us to explore the question: What’s below the surface of who we are and how we live our lives?
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Ride The River: On Navigating Life's Uncertainty
For the last year I’ve lived along the Columbia River that divides Washington from Oregon. It’s the largest river flowing into the...
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Winter Solstice: Thoughts On Embracing Darkness
Today is the Winter Solstice: the shortest day and the longest night of the year for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. In...
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Transforming Struggle into Purpose
Often times, our purpose is born out of our deepest struggles in life. The greatest challenges we experience, whether internally or...
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Water the Seeds of Your Life for Long-term Fulfillment
Your life blooms only when you show up consistently and tend the seeds you've planted.
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Experiencing Weakness is Necessary for Growth
Anything you do with the intention of improvement requires that you endure a certain amount of exertion. Take push ups as an example. If...
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Releasing Stories of How Things Should Be
Pain arises in our lives when the reality of our situation doesn’t align with the story we’ve created about how things should be....
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Move With the Waves of Emotion
A few days ago I broke down and sobbed under the weight of my own stress and worry at this time. In one afternoon, it all washed over me and
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Finding Stillness in a Storm
"When you're in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered...
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Loneliness Is A Lack of Meaningful Relationships
Beneath the forest floor is a networking system between trees that is nicknamed the "Wood Wide Web." This system connects the roots of...
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Soul Cycle: Expansion, Lessons From Spring
We all experience a recurring cycle throughout our lives that contains four main phases: renewal, expansion, abundance, and contraction....
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Living An Unprocessed Life
Lately I've been especially skeptical of the health and wellness industry (which is now worth 4 TRILLION dollars!) and I've wrestled with...
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Why You Must Speak Your Truth
There's a parable I love with a message intended to emphasize the complexity and multifaceted nature of God. It goes like this: "There's...
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The Best Routes Are The Reroutes
During my recent drive from Wyoming to move to Washington I unexpectedly found myself on a back road on the last day of my travels. It...
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Horizon Line: Chasing the Voice of the Soul
My internal compass always pointed North toward the horizon line, and I had a tendency to get myself into trouble when I followed it...
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It Takes Time To Build What's Meaningful
Are you familiar with the story of The Three Little Pigs? C'mon–everyone is! But just in case it's been a while, here's a little...
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Be Fear-FULL & Proceed Anyway
Can I be honest about something? Fear kicked my ass the other night. In the dark space of my room and of my mind, I tossed and turned and...
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There's Not A "Right" Decision
Not long ago I met with a young woman who is struggling to decide between staying in college or pursuing a less traditional path. As she...
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Perspective Shapes Reality
On life’s scale of experiences, extreme sorrow is on one end and extreme joy on the other. Between the two extremes are a range of...
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Do It Anyway
Last year I left a secure path to pursue the authentic desires of my heart. The path first took me to Alaska, where I spent the summer...