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Our sister blogger Therese Borchard at Beyond Blue inspires us day after day.  Her brave honesty about depression, anxiety, and recovery has helped so many people–often by cracking us up and reminding us that humor heals too. She and her husband Eric just released a video produced by ShareWik in which they talk about how…

An interesting thought about winter, which is showing itself even before the solstice: “There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you…

Our friends over at EnlightenNext magazine, run by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, spent last week at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia. This event has been happening every five years since 1993 in countries around the world. The idea is to bring together people of many, many faiths and promote dialogue and understanding…

‘Tis the season where “jingle all the way” can become “jangled nerves” in a flash–or the twinkle of a Christmas light, or the flicker of a Hanukkah candle, or….oy, I’m exhausted already. Here’s my general inventory of things that stress us out during the holidays (not necessarily in rank order): 1.  How to pay for…

Last week I took a most lovely yoga workshop than ran every morning. In it, the teacher asked us again and again to notice when we got so stressed we actually stopped breathing. Like the Buddhist-ish instructor she is, she emphasized the importance of simply NOTICING, not instantly following up with self-flaggelation. Then one student…

If you haven’t seen it, definitely check out this classic video from poet/teacher Taylor Mali. A lawyer asks him at a dinner party what he makes as a teacher and he has the best answer ever: 

What really makes you happy?  Get clear about that, advises Christine Arylo in her fabulous gallery of tips to build self-confidence.  She says: “Stop trying to fit into the expectations that outside forces–society, family, work, friends–have said you must achieve in order to be successful, happy, and accepted, and start asking yourself, “What really makes…

My beloved has been snuffling, coughing, sneezing, and aching for three days now. Poor guy. But I'll admit it--right up there with "Can I bring you some soup, Sweetie?" in my mind is, "Don't you dare get me sick."

Yesterday I wrote about noticing when stress causes you to shut down your breathing. Then talking to a friend yesterday, we realized an interesting follow-up question to “What makes you hold your breath” is the more positively spun: “What makes you breathe deeply?” You know those moments–when you read a perfect phrase or see a photo of some…

“What does it feel like to be alive? Living, you stand under a waterfall. You leave the sleeping shore deliberately; you shed your dusty clothes, pick your barefoot way over the high, slippery rocks, hold your breath, choose your footing, and step into the waterfall. The hard water pelts your skull, bangs in bits on…
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