Complete Refresh

Complete Refresh

During a recent retreat at a friend’s cabin, the wood fire renewed warmth to our bones after a wintry walk. How might we create that same sweet feeling of renewal here at the end of 2021, such a challenging year? Interestingly, many of us never learned how to...
Navigating Loss

Navigating Loss

A teacher named Kulu explains that joy is the only human emotion. Yes, we experience grief, he adds, and we know that grief includes feelings of anger and sorrow. “What about fear?”, we asked. Fear is just anticipated grief, he said, so again grief...
Art Tracks

Art Tracks

Out walking in the cold sunshine of nine degrees below zero windchill, I found the squeaking crunch of the snow under each step comforting. Do you ever feel that with each step on your creative path that you are stepping into uncharted territory? Crunch, crunch,...
Clearing Debris

Clearing Debris

How do you know which way to go? How do you make choices, decisions, plans and progress in a way that honors and includes your spiritual nature? First of all, it sure helps to clear whatever is in the way of your own discerning clarity. Mental and emotional debris has...
Make Way

Make Way

What’s the #1 thing that gets in the way of creativity? Fear. Of course it’s fear, right? Apprehension takes many forms and uses a myriad of sabotaging tactics to keep you from noticing the cause, assessing its validity and determining whether or not there...