Trust Your Internal Guidance: Inner Sights
Not long after leaving my corporate job and joining my husband’s start-up internet company, I was sitting in a conference room, and next thing I knew, I was watching many sets of animal eyes floating around the room. I was
Trust Your Internal Guidance – Part One: The Body
Growing up, I was often told that I was “too sensitive.”I could walk into a room and feel all the emotions of everyone there. I remember that when my dad would come home from work, sit down, and have a
What is Self-Regulation?
Self-regulation is one’s own ability (self) to control (regulate) his/her thoughts, emotions and physical responses. In other words, to do things by yourself, and for yourself, to maintain good health, make good choices, enhance performance and manage emotions. “Healing consists only
Trust: Lessons from Those at the End of Life
As a hospice chaplain, I’ve had the privilege of companioning hundreds of patients at the end of their lives. Each patient was a teacher and offered me unique lessons. But one lesson that I continually learned from these patients witnessed
How a Near-Death Experience Put Me on the Right Path
Whitewater rafting in level III rapids in Costa Rica, I was thrown overboard. Despite my life vest, I was pulled deep underwater, and complete darkness surrounded me.“This is it,” I thought. “I am finally going to die.”This fear of death
What is EFT Tapping and How Does it Work?
When we’re not feeling our best, we do just about anything we can to help our bodies recover. Perhaps you load extra leafy greens into a smoothie, spend more time resting, or maybe you add extra immune boosting supplements.The truth
How A Childhood Cancer Diagnosis Taught Me to Trust the Unseen
I don’t remember the exact moment that I turned to God and prayer, but I do remember what my first prayer was: “Please let me live to be twenty.”I said it when I was eleven years old and going into
How Breathwork Helped Me Through Suffering
My cell phone rang during dinner with friends. Scott, my husband, had collapsed and was being taken to the hospital.Panic rose in my chest as I made my way to the ER. The doctors struggled to make sense of his
What My Dying Mother-in-Law Taught Me
The doctors had told my-mother-in law, Karen, that there was nothing more they could do for her. The last few weeks of her life were filled with peace and acceptance. She entered hospice care and lived out her final week
How I Learned to Live From the Heart
I grew up in a family that saw feelings as a foreign language. We didn’t talk about them. We didn’t express them. We usually pretended we didn’t feel them. We loved each other, of course, but we weren’t that comfortable