Finally after 1 year of being on your own - divorced - Almost 50, two kids 6 and 9 - Finally feeling "normal" again.
An impromptu invite to a party.You muster up all your courage to go BY YOURSELF. You don't know anybody who is there and you decide to stay for only a half an hour to be polite. Finally someone arrives that you know - you attach yourself to them quickly. You feel safe.
Then the Hostess of the party pulls you aside and says in a whisper. "There is someone here I think you should… Continue

When will me make healing a priority?

Our culture & society seems to have us intent on pushing forward, overcoming challenges, always being on the go, persisting, staying motivated, etc, etc, etc.

While these are all necessary elements in the process of creating health, wealth, success, and happiness, they're only a piece of the puzzle, often blinding us to the need of the counter, of resting, relaxing, letting go, and healing...

Our planet has been sick. The environment, the economy, war… Continue

Does your spine tingle with dread when the post arrives? Is your credit card red-hot from constant use? Do you have nightmares about queuing for the dole? If the current economic crisis has fanned your financial fears into full-blown panic, then it’s time to take a look at what’s really going on.

In a crisis like this, we blame the banks, bad investments and dodgy government. We feel powerless, angry and resentful about what’s been done to us, beyond our control. But what we don’t realise is th… Continue

[Have you written a book but been unable to find a good literary agent? If so, you might enjoy this. I actually sent it to a few agents but, strangely, never got a response. Not even a giggle. Very sad.]

1. What sets you apart from the millions of other agents out there?
- I care
- I pretend that I care
- I work from the heart, not my Rolodex
- I’m filling out this questionnaire

2. What makes you think you’ve got what it takes to pitch good writers to the right publisher?
- I’ve done it once b… Continue

The Humanity Index

The Humanity Index is a way to gauge your willingness and capacity to be a decent, fully functioning, powerful human being — with a sense of humour and with the magnetism to attract what you want. It will provide a measure of how engaged you are in life, how committed you are to being fully you, and how much you believe in your ability to make a difference.

(If you’re too jaded to fill it out, or if you just can’t find the time because you’ve got 5,000 friends… Continue

I have been and continue to be a huge supporter of Barack Obama. My kids call me Omama. For the first time for as long as I can remember it was actually a pleasure to vote for the President of the United States. I was so disillusioned when George Bush was elected in 2000, the process was painful and embarrassing and the result disastrous. When the country re-elected him in 2004 I was just exasperated and depressed. The worst part was that it became so clear to me that I lived in country where th… Continue

"There is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet a part-but in the ‘thin places’ the distance becomes even smaller. A thin place is where the veil that separates the sacred from the pedestrian is so thin that one is able to catch a glimpse of the mystery beyond. A thin place is anywhere our hearts are more open to the ‘more’-when we feel the distance we often put between us and the divine evaporating."

But let me back up a bit so this story can begin to make sense. I turned 5… Continue

Since I have found discussions in the "media" largely less than satisfying and the "official" focus typically cyclical- I invited a few people to help take a look from different perspectives. Building on the Cultural Fusion theme of Radical Inclusion we are joined by... Atayne CEO/Founder -Jeremy Litchfield http://www.atayne.com, Musician, Composer, & Artist- Eduardo Martinez http://www.eduardomartinez.com, and Stephanie McKenzie http://stephaniedmckenzie.com.

When undertaking an enterprise… Continue

Everyone measures success in life differently. The great thing about our lives is that we can move them in any direction we would like by taking purposeful action. Ask yourself the following questions to see if you are successful:

1. Am I doing what I love?
2. Is what I am doing a reflection of who I am inside?
3. Do I experience joy doing my work?
4. Am I truly happy?
5. What am I doing to make sure I achieve my dreams?

When you begin to examine your life you will notice some themes that keep… Continue

Each one of us is born with a set of unique talents and abilities. No two people are the same. It is these skills that make us who we are. Yet we spend a lot of time covering up and ignoring those dream. Sometimes they are buried under so much stuff that we resign ourselves to never pursuing them and leave them as a dull ache inside us.

Each of us deserves to live a life of joy and show the world who we really are. We do our best when we function from that place inside us that reflects who we r… Continue