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Tell the truth = find your power

One of my favorite sayings is, “The truth sets you free.” I’ve come to know this assertion to be as certain and predictable as the sun that warms the earth and our skin. Telling the truth is an act of...

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Compassion when it’s difficult

“I feel I’m coming back to life, my real life, and it feels good.” Hearing this joined me with my friend in the feeling of joy. For a decade or more I’d sat with him as he struggled with depression and...

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How to keep love alive in relationships

When talking about love one critical thing needs to be on the table; love is our true nature, it is the essential quality and essence of our being. And, just like an underground spring does not need to...

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How to stop putting off your happiness and create what you love (part 1).

For as long as I remember I’ve had a deep knowing that human beings are innately happy and content. I’ve no clue how this notion landed in me. Nothing much about the circumstances of my upbringing...

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Why my prayer plant stopped praying.

I’ve just re-potted my prayer plant.  It’d begun to look tired and dull, and when I shook off the old pot I could see its roots had wound in a tight coil almost strangling each other. No wonder it...

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From Doubt to Confidence

I’ve been immobilized by doubt many times. A tsunami of doubt swept over me shortly after I made a decision in my late thirties to follow the promptings of my heart, rather than live the life I thought...

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Move Towards What’s Calling You Not Away From What’s Not

“I’ve spent the last 30 years making the wrong decisions.” We sat in silence as the weight of this conclusion sank in. My client was working a job she hated. It was the same job she’d walked out of 20...

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The Secret Life of Babies

Draw your family tree. A simple enough homework assignment for a seven year old. But what happened next was life changing. When I asked where my birthplace was I discovered I was born in a different...

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An unforgettable lesson from Elvis Presley

It was August 17th, 1977 at the end of an uneventful day. But at 6pm my heart was pumping hard. I had no idea why. A wave of panic surged through my veins and froze my heart. My body was on full alarm....

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Why hot and bothered leads to a better life

Last week, on a visit to Yellowstone National Park, I was immersed in Natures glory. Yellowstone is teeming with geysers where the earths crust literally cracks and shifts before your eyes. Watching...

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The benefit of falling down holes

Swerve to avoid a pothole. That’s the advice my driving instructor gave me after a harsh winter created deep pockets in the roads. Sensible advice for a learner driver. But for a human being there are...

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What it means to hold space for people, plus eight tips on how to do it well.

Featured Post by Heather Plett When my mom was dying, my siblings and I gathered to be with her in her final days. None of us knew anything about supporting someone in her transition out of this life...

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The one thing that always works

I’m tired. Jet lagged, to be precise. But I had an exceptional visit with my mother. Not that we did much. At least, from the outside, it didn’t look like we did much. She rested, a lot. Her body...

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The worry, the panic and the wardrobe

Doorways. Rabbit holes….. In C. S. Lewis’ story; The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe, children step through a wardrobe door to leave the ‘real’ world and enter a magical one. In the magical world they...

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Underbellies

It took three of us to haul her out of the water. One to pull, using a hefty truck. The other two to guide her with long platted ropes, attached to her front and rear. She rose slowly, wire halyards...

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Eating For… Pleasure?

By Dr. Dana Leigh Lyons, DOM, AP Long ago in ancient Greece, being smart was trending and philosophy schools were all the rage. During this time, around 300 B.C., a man named Epicurus founded one such...

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Food. Pleasure or Pain?

I glanced down at the first items on my list. Tomatoes. Avacados. Watercress. Easy enough. But what happened next floored me. Instead of circulating the produce section I stepped into Star Treks’...

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The bomb my father dropped

Today’s Heart Notes was inspired by my father who taught me about the power of compassion to heal all of the ways human beings are divided, so that we become a loving whole. He’d eaten his last...

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3 ways to find light in the dark

It’s solstice week! If, like me, you live in the northern hemisphere you’ll know that we’ve arrived at the darkest time of the year. I’ve come to love the depth of the solstice. The pervasive darkness...

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What’s in your driving seat? 

“I’m tired of going round in circles trying to decide!” Exasperation whistled through her email. With the new year bearing down and urgency to make resolutions, familiar voices rang in her head about...

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