As Ben lay his head down on the pillow, he said with unbridled excitement, “I can’t wait to get my white belt tomorrow!” I paused, "Ben, I don’t think they give out white belts the first day of class. Don’t get your hopes up, kay?” His...
"Come on Ben! You have to toughen up!" I say this to him after urging him to do his practice math test all morning. I say this after he's blamed his teacher, math (for being stupid and boring) and me for not feeding him properly. (For the...
Sometimes they overstimulate me completely. The noise, the rowdiness, the fighting, the constant fingers in everyone's butts. My HSP little heart starts to lose it. After being very shouty (which didn't work) I pulled out my camera and...
Nico is hereby banned from our local produce store. You know the kind. That grocery store with the small aisles and even smaller carts. The carts you can't strap your child into because they have somehow, at only 3, gotten too big to...
Self-care isn't just bubble baths + mani-pedis. Listen in as I chat with Lisa Byrne about self care for mamas. The real kind. The practice of self-care. Enjoy! "How do I craft my life so I can show up in the best ways possible? It's a...
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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