When it was time for me to get back in for a physical to renew my medical certification last summer, the doctor told me to lose 20 lbs. I'm sure there was the possibility that he felt that he was wasting his breath considering that people in general don't always head...

Gandhi said and lived it best—be the change you wish to see in the world. Of course his predecessors and contemporaries sound this clarion call too—Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Dali Lama just to name a few. But the quote hails from...

I’m a wife, mother, daughter, Gamma---and no, as Ringo once famously sang, it ain’t easy.  Toss in juggling a full time job, my writing projects, being the full-time caregiver for my mother, a once busy, active, independent woman now a mere shell of her former self...

Change.  It’s scary.  It’s awesome.  It’s necessary. When I was seventeen years old, my father got a new job offer in Arizona.  Did I mention the part where we lived in New Jersey?  Go look on a map.  Arizona is about as far west as you can go before hitting, well,...

As a child I used to play pickup sticks. You know the game—the one where you have to pick a spindly thin long fragile plastic stick off the floor without touching another stick. Sorta like mind your P’s and Q’s or never mix your veggies with your mashed potatoes....

When springtime approaches we are mindful of renewal, harmony and what conscious cultures consider a way of life: to honor the feminine. The concept of spiritual practice passing “through the feminine” marked the beginning of human consciousness and transcendent...

I’m going to share a story about some of my experiences and ‘evolutions’ over the last month, in hopes that you’ll be able to relate and be inspired to make some of these same leaps yourself. We enter the stream of events on a day my laptop decided to slow to a crawl...

The choice to think determines your reality. When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed. With practice you...

If you have spent any amount of time in the blogosphere or on online news sites, you have likely experienced all the colorful varieties of user comments. In many cases, you’ll get some civil responses, and even some that raise good points and are quite helpful, adding...

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”—Lao Tzu When I was young I had my share of traumatic events in my life. Just like you! One thing that I’ve learned is that these events had no meaning. They were just things that happened in my life. Then, I...

Time is not your enemy, and it can be a powerful ally. Your relationship to time determines your success or failure. The desire for immediate results and gratification can be overwhelming. Right now in early February, the gym is already less crowded than it was a...

Today we celebrate the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest social justice crusaders, orators, pacifists, and spiritual workers the world has even known.  Least to mention one of the greatest visionaries. His I have Dream Speech resonates as...