elements of power

New at Elephant Journal: The 12 Elements of Masculine and Feminine Power in Relationships (5 of 8): Nurturing and Providing

When your partner complains about his or her day, do you have to gulp your Tempranillo to resist the temptation to advise?  That’s one of the dynamics I shed some light on today over at elephant journal  in my latest installation of the Elements of Masculine and Feminine Power series.  Check it!    

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New at elephant journal: sensual and pragmatic power in your relationship

Today, I posted my third article in the Elements of Feminine and Masculine Power in Relationships series over at Elephant Journal.  In this article, I look at how the Elements of Sensuality and Pragmatism can shape relationship when they’re active, and can distort it when they’re in distortion.  Click on over to elephant journal to [...]

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New at elephant journal: Give your relationship a shot of power: connection and self-reliance

Today, I posted my second article in the Elements of Feminine and Masculine Power in Relationships series over at Elephant Journal.  In this article, I look at how the Elements of Connection and Self-Reliance can shape relationship when they’re active, and can distort it when they’re in distortion.  Click on over to elephant journal to [...]

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At elephant journal: The 12 Elements of Masculine and Feminine Power in Relationships

It’s a tough time to be in love, right?  We have an unprecedented wealth of opportunity to express the full range of our human capacities in the world.  But coming home after all that and kicking off our loafers or stilettos or Danskos or Keens (you catch my drift), the cozy slippers of domestic bliss [...]

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Mastering Your Own Power: Seven Reasons Why

Seven Reasons to Work With Your Power My company is called Working with Power and I help people integrate their power.  Often they hire me to help them develop more executive presence or to grow a business or find the love of a lifetime, but underneath all these objectives are the following seven motivations.  Our [...]

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Opening to the Feminine: Four Steps to Nourishment

Four steps to opening to the feminine for your nourishment. This post is the sequel to a guest post I did on Molly Gordon’s Authentic Marketing blog.  The first post had all the here’s-what’s-going-on and this post is the how-to-tap-in.  If you haven’t read the first post, do so first, then pop back here for [...]

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Clenching Up for Fun and Profit?

Yoga is described sometimes as the union of effort and surrender. In asana practice (if you’re not familiar, asana is the Sanskrit word that describes all those bendy stretchy balance-y poses), the point isn’t just to break a sweat or stretch your hams, but to have an embodied experience of universal truths. The catch-all underneath [...]

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Jackie Chan’s Failure-Recovery Formula

Kurt and I went to our first film of the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival last night.  A new Hong Kong Jackie Chan movie called Little Big Soldier. Throughout the movie, Jackie’s character greets “good news” and “bad news” alike with the thought, “how marvelous.”  Once, after he’s lost the enemy general he’d been hoping [...]

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Happy IS Helpful

My husband Kurt’s facebook posting yesterday:  “I planted hydrangeas for my girlie.”  And I kept him company.  He thanked me, and I said, “What am I doing?”  He said, “Just your being here is helping me.” We’ve both been working hard on the yard for about a month, now, but as I think back on [...]

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