On December 31st, I drove 4 hours to the woods in St. Louis. I packed yoga clothes and my mat, my journal, essential oils, Between Breaths by Elizabeth Vargas, hat and gloves for late night stargazing. The retreat center...

Between reading Michael Singer’s The Surrender Project and my own natural desire to go-go-go, complete with a regular forcing of round pegs into...

I am a chronic hurrier. It is my default modus operandi in life, with my kids, through books, around struggles, over details, onto the next thing, always go go go.

Sure, stuff gets done. But I am the first to admit: hurrying isn’t my best personality trait...

I was listening to a podcast the other day and they were interviewing Rob Bell (check him out, this guy is the real deal whether you’re into religion or not…plus he’s got a new book out that sounds basically incredible). I don’t even remember what they were talking about when he said 11...

I can’t think of a time when I have ever, on my own timeline, successfully and fully let go of something. Anything. And I’ve arrived at this: are you and I really the ones in charge of the letting go? Maybe it’s more like being in communion with these things that you want...

I'm on a seemingly never-ending quest to get to know, better understand, and improve myself, and to that end, I've put myself through a variety of programs, read books on a range of subjects, and taken a motley of classes. One thing keeps coming up, no matter how disparate the...

We live in a *power* time. There's a lot of encouragement and momentum *forward*. Better. More. Bigger. Another. New. Different. Change...

When you talk with children, it's tempting to ask them what they want to be when they grow up:

The search for stuff *out there* is relentless. You read to find answers, ask your friends for their opinions, take classes to learn more, research online, call in a professional. You look far and wide. Most opportunities for change and growth, after all, begin with an external...

...it's what you *don't* do.

Think of all the diets out there that start "tomorrow", the friends that will be called "next week", the vacations/businesses/inventions that will be embarked upon "someday". Sister worlds and...

In Judith Lasater's book Living Your Yoga, she tells a story about a villager living in a small house with his wife, mother-in-law, six children, a cow, and some chickens. Things were a little snug and the villager was losing his mind with all of the chaos and noise. So he went to the village rabbi to

Overwhelm is the difference between what you expect out of yourself and what you actually do. It's that disagreement between what you wanted, and what came to be. The static between reality and fantasy. Making it, methinks, pretty important to sort out your expectations.

You have to meet yourself where you're at. And since *pure* stillness seems to be beyond my capacity, and the capacity of most humans I know, I have shifted my focus: I want to live one footstep from stillness.

Whatever is in close proximity to you carries power. We all appreciate a certain amount of ease and convenience in our lives, which is why this is fundamentally true. It's handy when your kids play with the kids next door; it's tempting to grab for whatever's in the pantry when you get