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Bryon Katie, the creator of The Work, has done a brilliant job of teaching us how to be aware of whose business we are in with our thoughts. There is God’s business, someone else’s business, and our own business.  In many ways, the ‘claim your life as your own’ work that I do is all [...]

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Your work is to discover your life and with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
When you claim your life, a life grounded in your own body, you discover your deepest self beyond the conditioned mind. As you integrate Presence into your life, you naturally share your unique gifts with your world.
You [...]

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I had the privilege of leading a retreat this summer called “Nurturing Your Soul” at www.carmelniagara.com, a beautiful and peaceful center in Niagara Falls, Canada.  Being together with women in a circle is a powerful way to support us to get in touch with who we truly are and what we truly want.

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Inner confidence flows naturally when we are connected to our core, the spacious peace that is our natural state.  This spaciousness/stillness/emptiness is the Big Love, beyond the confines of the personality.

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In my last post, I shared, “inner confidence is not about gaining something.  What is really happening is an inhibition to the natural flow of life. There is a block to Life.  Natural confidence that resides deeply within us when we rest into peace/stillness/spaciousness is always, always present.”   This is the primary key to [...]

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What do you notice when you go after love?  When you please, want to be liked, need to belong and feel accepted, and/or seek approval?  In other words, what do you notice when you come from need?

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Committing to listening to the voice of your heart can be a radical act. Sometimes it gives us information that we’d rather ignore because there’s a part of us that wants something different. Sometimes it requires a lot of courage to follow through on its message. Sometimes it can lead us into the unknown.  And, [...]

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Do you really know deep in your bones that you – and only you – get to choose what your life is about?
A client of mine, in the corporate world as well as being a mother, realized that her high expectations of her mate kept intimacy at bay when she tried to get him to behave differently. [...]

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My invitation to you is to consciously spend time today observing the thoughts that pass through your mind. What do you notice?
How much of your thoughts  are focussed on expectations or desires?  How common are the phrases “I wish” or “if only” as you pay attention to thought?  In other words, how often do you [...]

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How does inner confidence thrive?
When we take the time to be, we touch into our natural state that gently arises in the fertile soil of silence. In the silence, we understand that we don’t have ‘to do’ anything, in particular.  Instead, we rest into our natural state – the state of stillness, peace, and spaciousness [...]

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