When I took the above photo I said, "Let me take a photo! You're going to want to remember this day forever!" He replied, "Yeah, cuz it's the best day of my whole life!" It is so true that our children's joy is our joy. Still soaking it...
It's possible that one of the few places I've found, where love feels so pure, is the love for those boys. The little ones with the big ocean eyes and long, thick lashes. The ones with yogurt smeared on their sleeve, denim torn at the...
Dear Nico, You can have anything you want. Love, Mama
When I look at Ben these days, especially with a guitar in hand, I am reminded of the acorn and the oak. That there is a little seed in all of us with so much possibility. These photos feel like a window into some possible future... one...
I've been mulling this post over for a while now. How do I sing the praises of Zoloft without sounding like a nut? But to be really honest, those little blue pills are rocking my world. Maybe even saving my life. It started off slow when...
I meditated yesterday. Finally, after years of resisting it, thinking I don't have time or just plain forgetting, I did it. I don't know what made yesterday the right day to begin but I found myself seated in the sun on the hardwood floor...
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...
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...
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