What’s Better – Loving Yourself or Loving Others?
Have you ever had someone tell you: “You can’t love anyone until you learn to love yourself”? And did you want to strangle the person who told you that? Though that wouldn’t be very loving, would it? Yes, it’s true that if we don’t...
How I Shut My Mouth and Found My Soul
What’s your relationship to silence? Do you embrace it? Do you shun it? Do you fill your life with sound – people, television, radio – in order to avoid it? Personally, I love to be quiet. I love spending time in the silence, touching base with myself – my mind,...
The Invisible Spiritual Practice: Are You Doing It?
What’s your spiritual practice? Do you meditate? Do you pray or say affirmations? Do you spend time in nature, absorbing the beauty of the Divine? My spiritual home is Centers for Spiritual Living. At CSL, we have five practices that help us align with the...
The Big, Scary Thing I Do Every Week
What’s the scariest thing you have to do? Ask your boss for a raise? Clean your fridge? Or how about speaking in public?! That’s always a popular option. There are plenty of things that scare me, but there’s one activity I find particularly...
Wanna Make Your Life Better? Try the “Magic 5”!!
If you took an inventory of your life, what would you find? Are there areas that are totally hunky dory? And how about train wrecks – are there any of those? I like to think that my life is train-wreck-free, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes my trains...