As women, we are inundated with messages that we are not beautiful enough just the way we are. We must pluck, dye, lose weight, wax, exfoliate, tone, manicure, highlight, paint, flatten, inject, and dress in haute couture to be “beautiful.” Well, I’m here to say, on behalf of women everywhere – bullshit. Recently, someone said to me, “Beauty …
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20 Tips For Being Beautiful From the Inside Out
A mind that has any form of fear cannot, obviously, have the quality of love, sympathy, tenderness. Fear is the destructive energy in man. – J. Krishnamurti Fear can be a useful ally. It can focus us, keep us safe — even alive — at times. Fear of illness or injury can motivate us to stop smoking, to exercise, and to eat healthier food. In …
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Fear Less
Starfish? Soldier? Yearner? How do you sleep? I fall firmly into the Fetus category of sleeping positions–curled up on my side–which, according to researchers at the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, suggests that I am a tough cookie with a sensitive heart. (And yes, it’s true…underneath it all I am a big mush.) Sleep scientists believe …
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What Your Sleep Position Says About You
Life is challenging enough, we can never know what will arise next and only when our minds are clear and focused can we make the best decisions.
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8 Ways Meditation Can Change Your Life
By Anne Driscoll, Tonic You’ve had a bad breakup. Or a job loss. Or a falling out with your best friend. How do you recover and put the sadness, guilt, regret and overall bad feelings to bed? Especially when negative emotions can so easily haunt you? We’ve all heard about psychological “closure” — that sense that you’ve put a nagging conflict …
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Get Closure By Licking an Envelope
Biologist Glen Rein at the popular Institute of HeartMath, in Boulder Creek, California, conducted a study of people who entered a state of heartfelt appreciation or unconditional love, what he referred to as “heart consciousness.” He found that these people could actually alter the winding and unwinding of DNA (genetic material) in solution.
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Gratitude Affects Heart and Genetics, Study Says
There is a topic that has been recurring in my life recently: the issue of resistance, and what I call “Waiting and Becoming.” Slowing Down Back when I quit my job, we were living on the Monterey peninsula, a remote place where my life suddenly slowed way down. I knew hardly anyone, no longer had to work 72-hour call shifts, and the demand …
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Waiting and Becoming
My daughter came home from school last week, sobbing, because one of the kids in her preschool called her a nerd. While I stroked her hair and wiped her tears, I flashed back 25 years to when I was fifteen. The head cheerleader, who was my secret friend, turned away from me at the lunch table. Standing there, holding my green plastic tray with …
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Owning My Inner Nerd
“Silence is a source of great strength.” ~ Lao Tzu Sound is constant. Whether it’s in the background or in your face, our culture produces a lot of noise. Finding slices of silence are few and far between for many of us with complicated lives (myself included). Noise becomes yet another byproduct of a busy life. If you’ve decided to slow down, …
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Assaulted By Noise? Try Quietude
Several years ago I attended a ceremony at the San Francisco Zen Center in which a new abbot, or spiritual leader, was being installed. I was one of six people chosen to ask the incoming abbot a question that he was to answer in public as part of the ceremony. The purpose of this exchange was to challenge and test the new abbot’s wisdom and understanding …
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A Meaningful Life: The Impossible Request
Intuition is a close sister to our loving relationships. Learning how to tap into and trust your intuition can change the face of your relationship to yourself and others. This conversation with Sherri Dillard provides deep insights and provocative thinking into the invisible spaces that connect us, it provides an intuitive perspective on love and …
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Loveologist Radio: Love and Intuition
I just met with a group of doctors under the wise and beautiful guidance of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom. We meet monthly to talk about Finding Meaning in Medicine, a program lead all over the country which aims to put doctors back in touch with the heart of healing. This month’s topic was “Resilience,” and as you …
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20 Ways to Build Resilience
It’s not always easy to maintain your integrity in business relationships. In fact, it can be downright hard. Pretending In my old medical practice, which was filled with people of integrity, I realized that my integrity was being compromised every day. All day long I was expected to lie – to make up reasons why an insurance company might …
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Owning Your Integrity
Firstly, I would like to thank the following for giving me the inspiration to try this. You can find their complete recipes and more on their sites… cookography.com (there is also a handy diagram on how to fold the dough here) and amysbread.com Okay, now let’s have some fun… make sure your biga has come to room temperature. What you need… Warm water… 1
Life is busy. There are deadlines, oodles of to-dos, and a feeling of overwhelm. We all feel it. We all struggle. Thus it is important to infuse the joys of simple pleasures into the everyday drama. While sipping jasmine tea and journal writing at a cafe in Portland recently, I penned a non-exhaustive list of key ingredients for tranquil living. …
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Key Ingredients for Tranquil Living
Life is constantly changing, moving, flowing. One minute there is sunshine, another there is a storm; one minute there are leaves and flowers, another the branches are empty.
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Beyond Suffering: Making Friends With Your Life
By Chip and Dan Heath, Experience Life Many of us have acted in ways we wish to change, or have created habits that don’t align with our future goals. You’ve likely experienced this if you’ve ever slept in, overeaten, dialed up your ex at midnight, procrastinated, tried to quit smoking and failed, skipped the gym, gotten angry and said something …
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Brilliant Ways to Create Positive Change
By Wanda Urbanska, Experience Life Most of us are so busy we barely have time to brush our teeth, let alone explore major shifts in lifestyle — even when those shifts promise to restore vitality and balance. That’s why, if you want a life that feels more sane and relaxed, it may help to start small. Making even one or two tiny changes is often …
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17 Easy Ways to Simplify Your Life
I just finished my last weekend of Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts, where we spend a lot of time talking about desire — not just sexual desire (though we do that a-plenty), but also the big picture desires of how we wish to live and who we want to be. What I’ve discovered is that, when given permission to fully own my desires, a certain fear arises. …
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Do You Fear Your Own Desire?
My husband and I are celebrating our twelfth anniversary today. We actually celebrate three anniversaries: the day we met, the day we exchanged our vows on the beach in the Canary Islands, and the day we legally married. Today is the anniversary of exchanging the vows we wrote declaring our love for and commitment to each other. So, it seems a natural fit that today’s gift be for my wonderful husband.
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The Kindness Revolution Day 29: An Anniversary Picnic