After several dates recently with a very lovely man, we decided there was no chemistry. Which was a bummer. But here’s the thing, the conversation was so refreshing! It went something like this: (Insert awkward kiss) Him: “So… I’ve been...
For a long time I thought effort was the way. Deserving was the way. Being better. Trying harder. Striving. Not stopping. Until I realized that I was too anxious, too sensitive, too exhausted by all of that striving. I couldn’t do it...
I drove to pick him up after the Halloween festivities. It was a rough day of parenting a teen. “You know how I was really angry today?” I began. He nodded. “I think I was actually more hurt than angry.” “Can you tell me more?” he said....
Hey sweet friends! It's been a while + I wanted to send a little update from the whirl that is life over here! 1.The book! Wonder Seeker is coming out SO SOON. If you have ordered your book (omg thank you!!) it should arrive by November...
"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the Earth gives me daily and I must return...
Like many of you, I've been obsessed with the NYtimes Spelling Bee game! It's a word scramble game where you try to make as many words as you can out of the 7 letters of the day. The more words you make, the more points you get, until you...
Justin Talbot Zorn has served as both a policymaker and a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress. A Harvard- and Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of well-being, Justin has written for the Washington Post, The...
Dancing at Zumba a few weeks ago, I found myself in a flow state. It felt like a miracle, after months of stumbling around and trying to follow the moves, not even being able to finish a class without leaving early. (Who knew Zumba was so...
In my coaching circles last week, we talked about pleasure and joy... and how it can feel wrong, like a betrayal to feel pleasure when so many others are suffering. And somewhere in my heart I know that joy is precisely the thing to reach...
After several dates recently with a very lovely man, we decided there was no chemistry. Which was a bummer. But here’s the thing, the conversation was so refreshing! It went something like this: (Insert awkward kiss) Him: “So… I’ve been...
Darshana Avila is a somatic sex and intimacy coach and has created the Map of Erotic Wholeness as a path to personal liberation in service to our collective sexual liberation. Her unique style of somatic sex and intimacy coaching weaves...
What are your most potent memories of wonder? Maybe it was the first time you saw the night sky blanketed in stars, or that time there were hundreds of tiny sand dollars strewn across the wet sand. Maybe it was hearing a gospel choir for...
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