What Can We Put Down?

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With the holiday season in full swing and 2022 coming to an end, last week I felt a bit overwhelmed with all that needed to get done. I am sure many of you have experienced similar feelings. I shared the passage below with my classes. Reading it always helps me touch base with what is…

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Live Your Life…

I hope you all are doing well. Last week was one of those weeks where lots of things were not going totally right; from little inconveniences like dry cleaning and prescriptions not being ready to have to adjust our morning drive to school to bigger stuff in the lives of loved ones. I felt a…

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Home is Inside Us

The Abiding Place of the Affections

With the holiday season in full swing and 2022 coming to an end, last week I felt a bit overwhelmed with all that needed to get done. I am sure many of you have experienced similar feelings. I shared the passage below with my classes. Reading it always helps me touch base with what is…

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Choosing Happiness

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This week in my class I shared some tips for cultivating the practice of CHOOSING HAPPINESS. We know whatever we practice we get better at and we practice things we don’t want to get better at without even realizing it. That is what mindfulness offers… a chance to consciously choose what we want to “practice”.  There…

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The Power of WISE SPEECH

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I hope you all had a good week.  With my recent move to Florida, I have been playing a bit more tennis as it’s a great way to meet people. A week and a half ago I played in a clinic and there was a middle-aged woman there who I hadn’t met before. She seemed…

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The Art of Facing Things

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This past week I definitely experienced a large wave of emotions– the “Sea of Feelings” was not calm as in the picture above. All the change and transition I have experienced in the last 6 months seemed to hit me very intensely after returning home from my retreat. Upon reflection, I realize that my retreat…

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Control Over Our Own Suffering

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I am home just about a week from my retreat. I was so inspired by the amazing people that joined me this year; such powerful women with incredible energy. We laughed and danced and explored our special little island paradise.  It always takes me a few days to come down from the high of the experience. I…

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I Hope You Are All Doing Well

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I hope you are all doing well. It was a bit of a dramatic week last week with hurricane Ian. We are feeling very lucky that we had very little impact from the storm. My heart is breaking for those who cannot say the same. In the mindfulness community we talk a lot about being…

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Karma is a Gift

The Right Action in the Present Moment

I hope you are all doing well. Things here are good. I am getting close to settling on a place to teach which is making me very excited to teach again. So I decided to film a short 20 minute flow and post it to my Youtube page. The link is below if you feel…

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CHOOSING HAPPINESS

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This week in my class I shared some tips for cultivating the practice of CHOOSING HAPPINESS. We know whatever we practice we get better at and we practice things we don’t want to get better at without even realizing it. That is what mindfulness offers… a chance to consciously choose what we want to “practice”.  There…

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