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Letting your longings breathe

I’ve been longing to create a little garden paradise on the West-facing balcony where I’m currently living. I imagine an enchanted place where I could drink my morning coffee, write, think and create, while I soak in the potency of the San Gabriel mountains behind my house. But I put it off, for many reasons…I…
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Healing the heartbreak of disconnect

Words have been failing me lately. Or maybe they have been for a while, and only just now I’m recognizing it. I do my best to put into words what we’re doing in workshops and such, but honestly to describe Feminine Power in written language feels excruciatingly limiting and underwhelming. I mean… yes, feel the…
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Why “just being” is overrated…

When I was 23, I started going to a therapist. I told no one before or after I went. As I picked my hangnails, I’d sit across from this tall, self-assured man and struggle to articulate the dis-ease I felt inside. I wanted to fix this anxious feeling; the feeling that something was wrong with…
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Letting life take your breath away

I went to see the moving Booksmart about a week ago. If you haven’t seen it yet, find out where it’s playing. (I promise you, you’ll walk out of there floating a few inches above the ground, lost in the delightful reverie of love, best friends and hope). It was full of the most delicious…
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Cultivating your will + Video

Last week was intense. The news of political events left me…well, what can I say? After the brutal anti-abortion laws passed in a few of the Southern states in the U.S., it felt like someone had kicked me in my womb, and I couldn’t kick back. I wandered around my newly-planted life in Los Angeles…
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