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The thing about Joy is that it feels elusive to most of us. Joy is a word on Christmas stockings and coffee mugs. Joy is rarely something that you hear described or acknowledged on a daily basis.

Why is that?

Joy is like a lever. It has the power to change a whole room. It can elevate our experience, it can get us out of our own heads, and into the ether of life itself. Joy exists in moments, not chapters.  Joy can be fleeting and difficult to pin down. Like a golden snitch of emotion,...

"You disconnected your TV service? Are you crazy? I can't imagine! I've thought about it, but couldn't actually do it..."

These are some of the common exclamations I hear when I share that I've shut off my TV service. I probably would have said the same types of things until quite recently.

But, yes. I disconnected my TV and I've never been happier.

In the months and weeks leading up to the election, I began to see the toxic energy spewing from our TV as a force of evil in my house. Every...

Is there a book sitting on your coffee table or bookshelf that changed your life? A book that vibrates with power. Pure transformational energy.

There are a couple of books like that for me. One of them is The Desire Map (check it out here) by Danielle LaPorte.  A dear friend of mine shared this book with me during a very dark time in my life, and things have not been the same for me since! (Thank you Tracy!)

Before I read Danielle’s book, this is how I felt about goal setting...

 "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

The other is as though everything is a miracle."  - Albert Einstein

With the recent election, two very different and very distinctive world views have painfully taken their place upon the world stage. While there are clearly nuances on each side, it is the fundamental dichotomy that I find most fascinating. Is the world about hope and love? Or is it about pain and struggle? Is it a...

Whatever is happening TO you, is also happening FOR you.

Catchy, right? Sounds good. Seems likely to be true. And might explain so many of the things in our lives that don’t go as planned.

If the things that happen TO us, are in fact happening in order FOR us; to learn valuable lessons, flex unused emotional muscles, discover alternative narratives about ourselves, or just generally help us rediscover ourselves…then perhaps we can give ourselves a break, and not feel the need to...

The choices we make define the quality of the life we live. These choices often defy what we know to be our own, innate wisdom. While we tend to attribute many of our trials and tribulations to things ‘beyond our control’, there is also, always a significant aspect of our own experience that is the direct and unequivocal result of our own choices.

Good choices. Bad choices. Choices of inaction. Choices made out of frustration. Unconscious choices that stem from our muscle memory...