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How Much Can You Receive?

If you’re not getting what you desire, expand your receptive capacity. Clients often tell me “He doesn’t…” “She won’t…” “It seems like there’s never time to…” “I just wish that…” There are longings in all our hearts to feel more _____.  Easeful, cherished, abundant, ravished, adored, successful, smart… Whatever it is you want to feel [...]

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What Brings You Creative Joy?

Creative Joy for me means… Integrating motherhood and work.  Before my son was born four years ago, my business was my baby and work was my drug.  Now, my son and my newborn daughter are my babies, and my drug is… well, sleep.  But that’s another story!  The point is, the act of shifting gears [...]

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Erotic Intelligence

Image via Wikipedia John Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has one called Kinesthetic Intelligence. Proproioception – knowing where your body is in space. Eye-hand coordination. Physical grace. The ability to move your limbs together in concert in a way that facilitates dancing – or even walking or running – well. Admittedly, among my many gifts, [...]

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Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile – a poem from Mirabai

A Hundred Objects Close By I know a cure for sadness: Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile. I bet there are a hundred objects close by that can do that. Look at beauty’s gift to us – her power is so great she enlivens the earth, the sky, our soul. – [...]

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Every object winks at me… my charms must be at their height

“Mirabai (c. 1498-1550) is the most renowned woman poet-saint of India, her songs sung by Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs alike.” – Daniel Ladinsky, from “Love Poems from God” Mira is also my daughter’s namesake, for her poems reveal a heart on fire for the divine and a body fully inhabited. She (like so many of [...]

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This I Believe: The Hot Love Manifesto

I’m spearheading a revolution in monogamous relationships.  I call it the Hot Love Revolution.  It’s rooted in these 11 key beliefs about people, relationships, and what’s possible: 1.  I BELIEVE IN PERSONAL EVOLUTION: The point of human life is to hone our souls – to learn, heal, grow, become something brighter and more tender and [...]

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Your Desires Want to Set the Record Straight

Hey.  Your desires called.* They wanted me to pass along a few messages, ’cause they’ve noticed you don’t give them the kind of attention they deserve.  They’re guessing it’s because you don’t really know what they’re for or how they can help you, your relationship, and your magnificent work in the world.  But they (with [...]

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For What Are You Built?

One reason a champion racehorse is such a beautiful sight, when running at its full speed, is that her power is completely unfurled – nothing held back, nothing pent up.   The same horse, back in the starting gate, was stomping and snorting, raring to go and emitting the acrid scent of impatience, even frustration [...]

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Forced Into Freedom…Possibly the Only Path

“I used to have intense guilt for craving creative freedom – and then life forced me to go solo and I learned in one fell swoop that my guilty craving was a very divine calling – with all the rewards I was hankering for.” – Danielle LaPorte – www.whitehottruth.com That could’ve been a page from [...]

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Heat Worth Basking In

I love summer nights when you can be outside, sleeveless, and feel warm and comfortable.  I love the heat radiating from a roaring fire.  And I love laying in the ocean, cool water supporting me as warm sun shines down on my face.  HEAT!  I love to bask in it. Last week I was at [...]

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Brags, Gratitudes, and Desires

I have been practicing the art of gratitude since 1996, when Sarah Ban Breathnach’s book Simple Abundance guided so many of us to begin keeping a gratitude journal. Then, in 2009, my friend Kim Shirley introduced me to the work of Regena Thomashauer, aka “Mama Gena,” a NYC-based actress-turned-trainer-of-women in really activating their feminine power.  [...]

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Lost Your Mojo, Too?

Sometimes our business is doing well – or well enough – but WE aren’t doing so well. I’ve been there. I figured out why. And my intent with this article is to be of help if you’re up to your eyeballs in the same predicament. The light has dimmed. You’re not fed, fired up, vivified [...]

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