Ever feel like Cupid’s arrow has flown over your shoulder? When that feeling takes over, it’s easy to forget that we’re here to love.  If we can make the decision to choose love, both with people who are easy to love and those who challenge…

Don’t wait for the research to confirm what you intuitively already know. Health is about restoring a state of harmony. The more we are able to flow with nature, the greater our grace and vitality.

As we grow older, it becomes clear that balance is the key to health. The hope is that our inner and outer worlds gradually come into alignment and whatever emotional healing that needed to occur to live happy, productive lives will have happened. At least,…

A few years ago, out walking with a friend, I was lamenting about body parts not being in their full, up-right position. In the midst of our laughter, my senior self said to me “Honey, I’d give my pinky toe for your derrière.”

It’s no secret. I hawk freedom for living. My “theory of change” revolves around the idea that we are stuck in habituated ways of being that are no longer serving our best selves.

There’s a joke in yoga that asks, “If you had to hide something that was the most valuable thing you had, where would you hide it?” The answer is: “in the present moment.” Ouch. Very funny, yoga. We all know the best humor has more than…

Just read a short article over lunch. The writer is a recovered bulimic who suffered with negative body image since a child. She talks about making peace with her body and spending some good one-on-one time together, as she would in getting acquainted with someone.…

The beauty of the 3-to-1 positivity ratio is that it’s large enough to encompass the full range of human emotions. That’s the good news.

Loving-kindness meditation is a technique used to condition one’s habitual responses, emotions and mind states toward greater warmth and caring for self and others. What we feed grows. By increasing our daily diet of love, compassion, and other positive emotions we nourish character development and psychological growth.

Therapy is a unique profession in that one of its purposes is to help search for new meaning to old problems. Recently, I started playing with the idea of therapy as a practice toward personal wisdom. For some, the practice is more of cultivation while for others it’s more excavation. For the bulk of us, it’s somewhere in between.