Category Archives: Picked up by the Wayfinder Post!

Your chakras don’t need any work

Your chakras don’t need activating, connecting or amplifying. They’re not tasks you need to add to your spiritual-mental-physical To-Do List. Quite the opposite: Your chakras are glowing resources you can avail yourself of anytime you need recharging or rest. All … Continue reading

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Let’s spark

“No.” Wait, what? You stepped into a universe of possibility, dreamed hugely, asked another to join you — to participate somehow in this dream — and they said “no?” “A ‘no’ can so often dampen our fire in the world … Continue reading

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Peace and harbors

“Abandon the safety of your small life.”  ~ My favorite life coach “You get to feel safe.” ~ The same, beloved, life coach! Once upon a time, the following inspirational quotation was used to beat someone over the head — … Continue reading

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Good Idea: “Be here in this moment.” Barely Conscious Fears: I’m afraid that truly doing this practice will keep me from… Making plans; changing — I might never stop an activity or condition that doesn’t serve me. Avoiding danger — I … Continue reading

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Wangari Maathai-ing

How to generate your own personal world class peace: 1. Choose something that you might consider a problem. 2. And choose another one. 3. Lightly hold my sagely friend’s idea that “nothing needs to be fixed.” 4. Put Situation #1 … Continue reading

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Brokenism needn’t be the new perfectionism

You don’t have to be perfectly impressive for me… AND you don’t have to be a wreck either. I can’t be perfect for you, nor do I want to have to be thoroughly busted. All we have to be is … Continue reading

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“Your assignment, should you choose to accept it…”

.. and should you want to be juicy and green. AND should you be over 50. [See what I did there with the title? You’re almost guaranteed to be over 50 if it hooked you.*] I am hugely crushing on … Continue reading

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B-enough

“This might sound pessimistic,” chipper Little Blue chirped, “but it was the giving in and saying why I can’t that helped me get going.” Delving into the negative feels weird to natural optimists, yet Little Blue is right that fine-tuning our understanding of … Continue reading

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“How do I find a life coach?”

Noticing and taking advantage of your natural way of getting things done — your “conative style” as Kathy Kolbe calls it — is the most effective and enjoyable way to find a coach (as well as to do most anything … Continue reading

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Stuff I learn from clients

To do list: Smell a horse. Every day. Yesterday, a glowing client considered  how her big goal will make her feel — because really that’s always the goal behind the goal: to feel some certain way. In her case, it’s … Continue reading

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