Category Archives for Inspiration
Well-Being
What is the essence of well-being? How can we cultivate it within our lives, our relationships, and ourselves? Well-being is not feeling “happy” nor is it feeling as if everything in our lives is just the way we want it to be. I have been reflecting a lot on this concept lately, trying to understand […]
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The Gift of Eroticism
My favorite sex therapist in the whole world is Esther Perel. I am inspired by her intelligence, her thought provoking ideas, her infectious enthusiasm, and her wisdom about how to create vibrant, deep connections with self and another through our own eroticism… she is just a gem! Perel’s perspective emphasizes living fully engaged and celebrating […]
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Transformation
I spend my days helping couples in distress create vibrant and deeply connected relationships. Learning how to be an effective, confident couples’ therapist came from years of training AND… The two darkest moments of my life: The first was the death of my mother when I was 20 years old; the second was the death […]
Read More »Our Intuitive Self
It is so easy to lose touch with our natural rhythms and connection to our inner life and soul. Pressures and expectations from many different sources (family, cultural, religious, work) often pull us in the opposite direction of living from our true nature. Its easy to find ourselves focusing only on getting our interminable “to […]
Read More »Awakening
“Uncertainty and unpredictability, impermanence and change, good times and hard times, sorrow and joy, loss and gain… all of this constitutes our home ground, the mandala of our life, our base for practicing fearlessness and compassion…. there could be no more fertile ground for our awakening.” Pema Chodron. Growth occurs when we let the fullness […]
Read More »Busyness
from Be Nourished May 5 at 4:24pm · “If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, […]
Read More »the uncertain side of life
“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life… fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do, and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change” Eckhart Toll
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