True Independence from Self-Limitation

3 techniques that work quickly and easily! As I revealed in the film, Sacred Journey of the Heart,  like so many others, I experienced child abuse growing up. It colored every aspect of my life as an adult, from friendships, to intimate relationships, to jobs and to parenting.  I was always on the lookout, waiting […]

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Presence- Peace- Power Equation – staying in charge during change!

If you’ve ever faced an unexpected event that threatened to derail something you’ve worked on for a long time, you know, as I do, that it’s a good idea to have a strategy or two to in place in order to react quickly and effectively and, with your intellect functioning under full power. I was […]

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Heart Humor… L-a-u-g-h it up!

Have you ever had one of those days when things were just not working out? I had one of those days yesterday and rather than bore you with the details, I’ll just share what I did to get out of the pits and into the place of positive perspective. I call it L-A-U-G-H! And I […]

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Are you contributing or detracting? 5 easy ways to increase your contribution

Have you ever thought about how the 5 major initiatives resulting from the Earth Day movement have a correlation in your personal life and your interactions with others? As a result of the first Earth Day celebration on 4-22-1970, the Environmental Protection Agency was founded and the first three major Acts were passed: The Clean […]

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Overcoming #1 Fear: 3 steps to Speaking Up with Heart

3 easy steps! We’ve all heard that speaking in public is the #1 fear reported in most surveys about fears and phobias. For most people, it ranks above fear of failure and fear of death.  To me, fear of public speaking is an extension of a deeper issue: fear of speaking from the heart. What […]

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Heart Hertz for Heart Hurts

Have you ever had an experience in your life so challenging that your heart physically hurt? These are the occurrences in life that give rise to the term “heartache” or “broken hearted”. I’ve had a recent experience with this feeling which gives me the opportunity to dive deeper into my own heart and practice the […]

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E-A-S-E! Laughing it up with the TSA

(Note for my non-US readers- TSA is the Transportation Security Administration, the group in charge of airport security in the US) Airports and stress have come to by nearly synonymous since 9-11. The 9-11 incident changed our lives in many ways as a society, none more evident than our experience of traveling through the “friendly […]

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Valentine’s Schmalentine’s! 6 Steps to Cure a Heart- Scrooge

Would you rather be right or be happy, is a well-known lesson in A Course in Miracles. My Valentines version of this is: Would you rather wait for the “right way” to express love or, be ecstatic for all the ways and opportunities to give and receive more love and appreciation? In this article, I […]

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Heart-Based Living: 9 easy practices to change your life

“The new frontier of human evolution is one that connects us, not just as a catch phrase, but in a deep and meaningful way,” says Ronna Prince in her documentary film, Sacred Journey of the Heart. What does this mean?  “When we live in this interconnected way,we not only know it in our minds, we […]

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Whose side did you take? Transforming anger

“I don’t take sides”. That’s what I thought too! I aim to stay neutral and calm, to first gather the facts and after that, respond in a wise and measured way. But then a reality check came in yesterday to test me when my son, in his “new-used car” went careening off the crowded 101 […]

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