“I’m in this swamp,” she said. “And I keep slogging along, but it just keeps getting stickier and muddier.” Oh, yes, I thought. I know this place. I know it well. You know how sometimes you hit a perfect storm? You’ve been hopeful and brave and you set out to do something big– and now […]

Last week we talked about our yearnings, and I made the fairly scandalous declaration that your YEARNINGS are pointing you toward your own magic. This makes sense, surely, if you long for things like justice, freedom, clean water, and worldwide healing. If you yearn to be a human rights attorney or a yoga teacher, you’re in […]

This time of year always makes me think about magic. Your own magic. I don’t use that word lightly; I’m talking about the powerful force inside you that you might call “energy,” or “qi,” or “unique gifts,” or “life force.” But also just straight up mystical mysterious magic. As a little kid, I believed that […]

I get the most wonderful things in my email inbox from you loves. (Even though I’m appallingly slow to respond sometimes; I do read and appreciate them all!) This week we’re talking about how life is messy, and that’s ok– we can make it a gorgeous mess. Last week I got a message from someone […]

Can you believe we’re into the final months of the rest of this year AND this decade?!?!? It’s been a wild couple of weeks here, during a wild season in a wild year….ok, in a wild lifetime. Is there any other kind? ppst–New here? Catch up here and here!  While you’re reading this, we’re (hopefully!) in downtown Calgary doing […]