This month, instead of an essay on declaring dominion over your life, I’m sharing something I wrote last summer as the rains came down.  It’s a love letter to a country I love.    The Rain Spirits    The rains are coming down.  We are deep into tsuyu, the rainy season.  There is an atmospheric shift, a heaviness […]

The whole time I was training to be a life coach with Martha Beck and her master coaches, I puzzled over a conundrum.  As coaches, we learn to question our painful and frightening thoughts by asking “Is it true?” using Byron Katie’s The Work and other methods of inquiry.  And we also learn to listen to our bodies, […]

  As I write this, I am in Tokyo.   It’s been 48 hours since the biggest earthquake that’s ever been recorded in Japan.   Ever since the sheer terror of those five minutes in which our building shook and swayed and groaned, and I didn’t know if my daughter and I would make it out alive, […]

My darlings. Here it is at last, The Birth Story Project. I so craved the firelit circle where women would tell their deepest stories of initiation and transformation that I created a virtual one, where anyone in the world could contribute and anyone in the world could read it. I told mine. Now will you […]

This month, I just have a tiny suggestion.   If you feel agitated, instead of trying to calm yourself down, simply accept yourself as agitated.  If you feel sad, instead of trying to cheer up, simply invite the sadness to hang out as long as it wants to.    If you feel petty and judgmental […]