I am coming to better recognize and understand the depth of my agitation around all that is unfolding in my larger world. I know this process well as it echoes what it was like in my house when I was growing up. Stuff happened. The more significant it was, the more we pretended it didn’t matter or worse, had not happened at all. Or we just looked away. ... Continue Reading >>
Accelerated Evolution
Infinite Grace
I recently chose to watch ‘The Post’ - the latest offering from Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. For me, the pivotal moment occurred when Katharine Graham - decked out in her finery to celebrate a friend’s latest adventure - was insistently interrupted by her assistant to attend to an urgent phone call from her editor. Haltingly, she takes her leave and heads to ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy - a word that for many causes chills down the spine, a churning deep in the belly and the desire to run and hide! It’s a word that is laden with judgements and labels, running the gamut of questionable intelligence to suspect morals; leaving this a topic that is often shunned and left to languish to the very last moment possible. Not only do ... Continue Reading >>
Breaking: Bone and Bondage
"When I am ‘in’ my mind, it cannot be hacked. When I am ‘out’ of my mind, some other can easily mimic the sound of my own voice and leave me thinking that I occupy that territory." It has been an interesting time. On December 12th, I broke a bone in my right shoulder. In that instant, movement became excruciatingly painful, resulting in my ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Women Shaping Culture
I believe that the future of the world is in the hands of women. It’s in how we choose to move through our lives, and our connections and interactions with others. It’s in our ability to trust in the inherent genius of living, organic systems and how they unfold and evolve. It lies in our willingness and ability to trust in our fear and do it anyway! I ... Continue Reading >>
Wake Up Call….
January 13, 2018 will long be remembered as the day the State of Hawaii held its breath. Things are changing. The intensity and speed of that change presses us to reconsider how we make choices in our lives: Before acting, pause and connect to your inner cues. The intelligence of new thought and insight will be found in that pause. Let go of ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Choosing to Emerge
The start of a new year and the opportunity to pause... and make it count! It can be a daunting prospect: carving out space and time to focus 100% of your attention on yourself; choosing to leave no stone unturned in acknowledging, out loud, what you know already moves within. Not in the usual bits-and-pieces approach but in a concerted and wholistic ... Continue Reading >>
The More Things Change…
I originally wrote the article on which this post is based in 2011. I could have written it this morning. (The original article can be found here.) I find myself neither hopeful nor hopeless, but pensive... even relaxed... as I continue to trust that I am, always have been and will continue to be the creator of my own experience and its corresponding ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Money, Self and Stuff
It’s that time of year, again. In a debt-driven economy dependent on perpetual consumption, December brings with it the biggest retail event of the year! Purported to open our hearts, for many this is more likely the press to open our wallets in some effort to meet or exceed expectations too often shaped by advertising and marketing hype. Who amongst us ... Continue Reading >>
Yuval Harari on Humanity, Social media, AI and our future
https://youtu.be/HMU08VI3jPM On teaching our children: "I would invest in emotional intelligence because they would need a lot of mental balance in order to cope with a very hectic and constantly changing world. Nobody knows how to teach EI on a massive scale. " I agree with the essential need to teach our children EI and I disagree with the notion ... Continue Reading >>
The Sharp Edge of Potential: CRISPR/Cas9
If you have ever doubted that the human body is a device, the following conversation may well press a few buttons for you. The following is taken from the work of Sam Harris (PhD in neuroscience): In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jennifer Doudna about the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. They talk about the biology of ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Edge of Potential
Strong (think: power), intense (think: passion) and definite (think: purpose) - when directed at creating what we want in our lives rather than fending off or pressing away what we do not want in our lives - take on a flow that supports the creation of Life rather than its destruction; awakens others to that potential in themselves; and leaves behind a trail ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Designing Your Life
I remember well, those days when I believed that I had to plan my life; to carefully map out the trajectory of my evolution rather than simply trust the process of my own evolving. I remember well the degree of detachment that was required in order for me to be able to do what was required; to stay the course of my own intention; and to make the sacrifices ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Violence and Silence
In my world of engaging with women who are seeking to regain their footing in their own lives, I have become mindful of two critical components that contribute immensely to keeping women in check: the first is silence and the second is isolation. One side of these is the need that women have to become silent, in an attempt to avoid reaction and diminish ... Continue Reading >>
The Guy McPherson Factor: The Fluidity of Truth
Woke up about an hour ago with the notion of ’truth’ flapping in the breezes of my mind. One thing I have come to trust: truth is flexible and depends on our intention and point of reference. I’ve always found ‘truth’ to be such an interesting concept. Before I can come to truth, I have to experience a perception. And before that perception can be ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Women and Leadership
Over my 25+ years of working with others, I’ve come to conclude that expressions of, interpretations of and experiences of ‘leadership’ are deeply intimate and personal. For those with whom I engage in a more protracted exploration, they inevitably come to this simple observation: what is common to their definition of leadership is not the words they use or ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Line in the Sand
Consider how many times in your life you have stopped yourself from saying out loud what moves inside you; how many times you have said 'yes' to something when you wanted to say ‘no’; how frequently you have pulled back from the edge of your own thinking to, yet again, comply with the thoughts of those around you. Stop for a moment and allow yourself to ... Continue Reading >>
Acceleration: The Forces of Change
I do not know your story I do not know your dreams or visions I do not know your limitations or constraints I do not know your hidden super power I do not know your desire to become What I do know is your Soul. I do know the Self that is you because I too, am that Self. Although we appear separate at the expression through body into this world, at ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Out of the Shadows
Are we ever really too busy to consider the quality of our own lives? As much as we can find ourselves caught up in the daily routines that form part of living our lives, our willingness and ability to stop... take a breath... and ask ourselves: “Am I living the life I desire? Or am I living the life I think I’m stuck with?” - is no more difficult than ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Penetrating Cultural Coma
As much as I am committed to engaging in the creation of a meaningfully sustainable life for mySelf, I am mindful that my life unfolds within a larger collective of others. My life is touched by and affected by the perspectives and choices of others, that include my family and friends; my colleagues and clients; and the cumulative impact of those whose faces ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Inviting Insights and Discoveries
How else might I choose to live my life, today? Such a simple question and yet - as one choice becomes the platform for the next - one that holds the power to profoundly transform our lives, our world and how we choose to engage that world! In many places around the world, the end of one year brings with it traditions that invite us to ponder the new ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Chaos and Order
You’d have to be living in a cave on a mountain top not to notice the pace at which things in our world are shifting. Whether on the social, economic or environmental front, news reports - and our personal experience - are telling us that the world is changing in ways and at a pace that make it impossible for us not to pay attention! What is that larger ... Continue Reading >>
Climate Change: 4th Level Collapse
From a CODE Model™ perspective, I look at the world I share with more than 7,000,000,000 other humans (not to mention all of the other expressions of Life, in its many, varied and mesmerizing forms) and I know that we, as a species, are at the precipice of 'evolve or die'. What I also see is that we are in the throes of a 4th level collapse, with 2nd ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Finding Your Voice
In my close-to 30 years of working with women, far fewer women actually don’t know what they want than there are women who know… and just won’t tell. That’s a tough one: when you think that others don’t want you to have what you want or that others would turn away from you if they really knew the truth of who you are. And yet, in all those years of working ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Cherishing After Divorce
We get divorced for a reason. If we were not able to work out our differences together, not likely that we’ll be able to work them out through our children! And yet, how many of us turn away from owning our own internal states; turn away from taking responsibility for our inner world and corresponding outer turmoil, allowing our children to be lost to the ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 6/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: To assist you along the way, you can find visual aids for each of the wall charts referenced in the audio material on the WEL-Systems Institute website. Scroll down to about the middle of the page to access links to a PDF of each wall chart. This final week's conversation is intended to offer an experience ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Money and Mind
Over time, money has come to be generally accepted as the currency of choice; as the preferred medium of exchange that allows us to bring into our lives that which, without currency, we believe we could not experience. Truth is, rare is the person or the moment when we stop... take a breath... and ask ourselves: Is money the only currency? How else ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Great Daring
In truth, incremental change is much easier for us to manage. With those tiny steps - inching ourselves forward from one day to the next - those around us are able to watch and listen, tracking for our movement and potentially, adjusting accordingly as we go. Through this process, even though we may be changing, we continue to be experienced by others as ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 4/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: PTSD
There are moments in our lives that change us. Not just our thoughts or our philosophies but our body - the very tissue of our being - is deeply, profoundly and instantly transformed into something that we had no previous knowledge of and no desire for. The subsequent and seemingly permanent effect of this tissue transformation is that our lives are no ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 3/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Do No Harm
5:00 am and the message from the birds is clear: my day has begun. I stand and breathe in my morning; expansive view of the Gatineau Hills from my 8th floor window; observing the rising sun just out of my line of sight, yet evidence of its movement fills the morning sky with those soft pink and grey hues that mark the start of another day. The unusual ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Men in Our Lives
After almost three decades in the program room (working with both men and women), I became aware of an emerging pattern. As I moved away from experiences that were based in technique; experiences that were supported by the detailed content of ‘how to” and the manuals that they require, I noticed that the men were disappearing from the group experience. Fewer ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 2/6
To recap from the first post: One of the explorations I came across was to be Volume 3 of the ‘Women Awakening’ series. These were evening events, usually three hours in length, that were intended to be of value to women who were seeking to find a process that would guide them back to that within themselves which was core to their unique and authentic ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Children and Potential
One thing I’ve learned over more than 25 years of working with others - and from being a Mom,myself - is that we can be very touchy about our kids! Not so much because it’s really about any particular child but much more because as parents, we so strongly identify ourselves by who our children have become. Are my kids well-behaved, doing well in school, ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 1/6
One of the fun parts of exploring ‘retirement’ is that as I wander through long-untouched audio files, I have discovered many, many hours of unpublished recordings. Due to constraints of available time and effort, these sound files are just now re-entering my consciousness. Given that a WEL-Systems® approach is process and context driven, the ’shelf life’ of ... Continue Reading >>
Truths, Perceptions and Choices
Everything is true somewhere, at some time, for someone - not because the content is ‘real’ or ‘accurate’ but because perception makes it so. Now prone to being awake and ready to start my day anytime after 4:00 am, I am also prone to thinking in sound bytes rather than complete sentences. Even within myself, I am noticing that I explore my own thoughts ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Reclamation of Self
Reclaiming your Self is not a single event but a living and perpetual intention. It’s a way of ‘being’ that takes us far beyond solving a problem or fixing a broken life, and offers us access to the reclamation of untapped potential to become more than we had ever imagined possible! Reclaiming your Self is a perpetual journey and not a destination. It’s a ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Intelligence of Pain
So many in so much pain. Physical pain. Emotional pain. Spiritual pain. We have been relentlessly trained to consider the experience of pain as the enemy, seeking to eliminate it and banish it from our lives. We use drugs to numb ourselves to its presence. We accept violent and invasive procedures to the body to cut it out of our lives. Perhaps what ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Paying Attention
Being human, there are two things essential for our ability to function in this physical world. The first, is a body. Without that, we are incapable of detecting, sensing and metabolizing the experience of matter. Our bodies are capable of far more than we are taught, making it possible for us to ‘ingest’ and ‘digest’ ‘life’ at many different levels - from ... Continue Reading >>
The Future: Growing into Grace
Recently, I had the great joy and privilege of attending the wedding of my first-born son. They were engaged in the summer of 2015. Little did I know that I would spend the following months in the grip of frequent episodes of tears… welling up from somewhere so deep within me, I could not recognize the source. It was a puzzle for me, since I felt such joy ... Continue Reading >>
Invisible Frameworks: Who Designs Them?
Woke up this morning to another beautiful day at the Chateau Montebello. Windows open, breeze blowing through the room, smell of the water….life is good! I greatly appreciated the opportunity to spend time with three strong and courageous women in what was, for me, a compelling and deeply meaningful ‘pull’ for discovery of some kind. Add to that, that I ... Continue Reading >>
Markers and Journeys
As I approach 67, I am becoming aware that I have forgotten more than I even remember having known. As I continue my journey of letting go of all that is no longer meaningful in my life, I am finding digital trails of articles, blog posts, etc long stored…. ‘just in case’… that speak to things that I now recognize as markers along the path of my own ... Continue Reading >>
Starship: The Power of the Body
Over the last 30 years of working with others, some conversations have proven to be more significant in effecting rapid, profound and generative change; have stood out as more significant in terms of the essentials of accelerated evolution of consciousness. Now, as the lives of so many of my amazing colleagues are filled with the joy of co-creating ... Continue Reading >>
Marketing: The Illusion of Choice
I’ve been thinking. And although I can’t say that’s always a good thing, it is most definitely something that even ‘retirement’ cannot seem to banish from my day. The more I move into this freedom from what was, the more I am able to see through new eyes. It all just arrives: thoughts neatly packaged, as if I’m already reading that which has been written for ... Continue Reading >>
The Pause….and the Redirect
When I sold my house in the summer of 2015, little did I know that I was letting go of ‘ownership’ of so much of the familiar in my life. I gave myself to the end of 2016 to explore, discover and consider what ‘retirement’ might mean for me. That concept (for me, from the French ’se retirer’ - meaning, to remove myself; to pull myself away from or out of) ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 10
Good morning! Here I am on Day 10: The first day of the rest of my life. I think of the completion of this cycle of enquiry as the end of a long, steady and deep inhalation… of my Self. Now, I pause… and in this continuing cycle… I enter into the long, slow and deep exhalation as I choose to live my life as an expression of the integration that now ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 9
Good morning! Day 9: the penultimate, in this journey of inner exploration. We are almost complete, ever mindful that we can begin anew anytime we choose. There is never an end - only pauses along the way to live out discoveries and re-awaken the desire for yet another deep dive into the unclaimed possibilities. How does it go? The purported Chinese ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 8
Good morning! Inside myself, the ’tone’ of my own enquiry has shifted. As I move from what I know or have known, to what I know I don’t know, there is a sense of being set adrift in a weightless environment. Perhaps this is what a walk in space might feel like. I am more present to the moment; more in the ’now’ as I release myself from searching and ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 7
Good morning! In my own life and with others, I became aware of patterns and how these patterns, themselves, become the very fabric of our existence; aware that they come to shape our very lives into what we come to call ‘reality’. These patterns come to be relied upon as not only the right thing and the appropriate thing, but the essential thing for our ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 6
Good morning! It has been the longest 5 days of my life! :) Great surges of insight! Deep undulations, reminiscent of those from so long ago. Churning and swirling and twisting….. constant movement of the Soul, as is to be expected when a Great Journey is undertaken. And in this moment, calm. This is what it must be to enter into the eye of a ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 5
Good morning, All! Today, I feel the wrenching. And the truth is: sometimes, when something has been fixed for so long, the wrenching is required for it to be dislodged. A very, very old wave activates as I notice an inner voice speaking to me, in the timbre and cadence of a much younger me, chastising that I have gone too far. That I have asked too ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 4
Good morning! As I settle comfortably at the keyboard… first coffee of the day gratefully within easy reach… I am mindful of the sounds of a new day beginning, as they stream through the open window behind me. The light of dawn and dusk hold a special promise. Light softened yet still allowing for all to be seen, there is a peace as the harsh light of day ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 3
Good morning, All! The dawning of Day 3 and already, it feels as if we have been here for weeks! Clearly, I am in the right place, at the right time and with the right people. With every thought you share, my own expand. The awakening of internal cues is palpable. As I read, I am aware of the great courage that it takes to dive so quickly into the ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 2
Good morning! An earlier start to my day, today, as I am off to Carleton U for a lecture series on astronomy. Yup, not much to do with anything I usually do, and I’m loving it! What great joy to read your insights about yourself, revealed and shared! I have long known - for myself and in my life - that in the choice between willing and able, willing is ... Continue Reading >>
Whispers from Within: Day 1
I begin with much appreciation for your enthusiastic willingness to be part of this journey with me. Many of you already know that those who step into our worlds are, in some way, a living expression of an as-yet unrecognized aspect of our own consciousness. I enter this journey with all of you with the recognition that what calls to me requires… and ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Retreat with Louise: Nov. 22, 23 & 24, 2016
It’s that time of year, again! With the rapid approach of Fall, my thoughts turn to the annual Emerging Futures retreat for women; at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello. The Sharp Edge of Your Own Evolution: Contouring the Curve of Creation November 22, 23 & 24, 2016 Such an odd way to define this event! How do we make sense of recognizing that our own ... Continue Reading >>
The Meaning of Life
How presumptuous of me : to think that I have figured out the meaning of life. And yet, to be sure, I have figured it out for mySelf. Things change. There was a time when I was driven by a bottomless well of caring that my potential, and yours... as human beings... was given the chance to be fully expressed. In that, I felt it was both meaningful and ... Continue Reading >>
The Seeds of Potential: Living In the Inclusive ‘Or’
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” (Aristotle) From one day to the next, we are pressed into considering so many diverging and often conflicting thoughts. For most of us, what we have been taught to do is to shut out that which neither reflects what we already know nor builds incrementally on ... Continue Reading >>
Timelessness….
Yesterday, was a really lovely day! In my cozy sanctuary, my Ohana gathered to be in the good company of each other. My always-funny, sometimes-outrageous and ever-loving sons; their wisely-chosen and equally-compelling partners; and long-time, close friends gathered for good food, great conversation and side-splitting stories of long-ago mishaps and ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Awakened Ownership (Part 3/3)
Through those decades of my own evolution, as well as more than 25 years of working with others, I hold this to be the most challenging and difficult part of this exploration, around our illusions: With ownership, we take hold of mindful and meaningful creation. Without ownership, we cannot let go of the frantic hope that some ‘other’ will create it for ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Ground Zero (Part 2/3)
We can talk about it… ponder it… even anticipate it…. but once we’re in it, our bodies pack a powerful punch in awakening us to a new reality. When our illusions collapse, beyond the internal voices that seek to capture our attention, the effect is most potent in its visceral cues as life as we've known it, begins to fracture and separate; causing the body ... Continue Reading >>
When Our Illusions Collapse: Do they make a sound? (Part 1/3)
I grew up in the post-war, baby-booming ‘golden days’ of cookie-cutter housing projects, rayon blouses, muscle cars and the infinite miracle of plastic. That war-to-end-all-wars was over and it was time to build; to create and invent; to design high-consumption, mass-expression lives. The feeding frenzy went on for decades… imbedding in two generations ... Continue Reading >>
The Journey to ‘Radical’
Be mindful of the company you keep. My world - and yours - is shaped by the conversations that we have and the people with whom we choose to have them. For my world to expand, I must first expand my conversations. I don’t know about you but I have long tired of the blah blah blah... as we continue on, deep in our denial and mindless march to the edge of the ... Continue Reading >>
Men Waking Up
Recently, I was in contact with a man who has been my pen-pal for more than ten years. We met during one of the many programs I have attended and for whatever reason, chose to stay in touch through the years. We live on different sides of the world so, although I consider him my friend, I have not seen him in person since that first meeting. In a recent ... Continue Reading >>
Sexual, Sensual and Spiritual Beings: Penetrating Coma
The pervasive and relentless sexualization of women and children has created a downward spiral for us all. There is no power in judging this or railing against it. The power lies in knowing that this is not the world I want to leave as my legacy for my children... and then, act accordingly. This exploration was seeded more than three years ago. I would ... Continue Reading >>
Speaking/Listening: The Power of Flow
Strange... I don't seem to notice anymore where one year ends and the next, begins! For me, it is an endless flow - with fewer and fewer distinctions throughout that flow to distract me from the flow, itself, as the force of change. I noticed long ago that moments of passage - like birthdays, anniversaries, etc. - held no meaning for me, despite the value ... Continue Reading >>
I am changed
I’ve been ‘at this’ for a very long time (since I was 18 and I’m 61). You would think that, by now, I’d have a handle on it and would have become adept at the strategies of living my life in this way. Truth is, that is not true. These last three days have found me in the intensive conversations that are the platform for certification as a CODE Model ... Continue Reading >>
Awakening… to what?
Like millions of others on the planet, I often turn to Facebook and allow myself to wander around and see what’s up in the world. As one who is both mindful of the notion of being ‘awake’ or ‘awakening’ - for myself and in my engagements with others - I am always willing and able to consider that one new insight or that single compelling thought that just ... Continue Reading >>
Catching Up to MySelf
I just realized that my last posting here was July 5th. Four days later, my 86YO mother fell and broke her hip... and my life changed. Exactly one week later, my teenage step-daughter was taken to the hospital in a coma, where she remained so for 12 days. An extensive stay in intensive care led to what now, may likely be a long and slow recovery. And ... Continue Reading >>
Change or Die!
I am having one of those moments when I am either seeing polar opposites or am seeing in polar opposites. I am so mindful of the deep, urgent and massive desire that exists for an acceleration in the evolution of consciousness of the masses. The outcomes we are co-creating as a global collective are moving rapidly down a track that will kill us all. Gaia ... Continue Reading >>
Everything old is new again….
Today, I received a request from a PhD candidate in Sociology (Sydney, Australia) to quote a section from an article that I had written some time ago. It was such a gift to me to have been reminded of those thoughts from what seems like ages ago... that I might find my way through these changes, in these times, in my own life. Funny, don't you think? My ... Continue Reading >>
Women, Breast Cancer, Food and Men
The entangled threads of my own thoughts tug at notions of women and leadership; women and breast cancer; the need women seem to have to apologize when not agreeing or when finding something lacking; food and its stranglehold on women and their bodies; and last, but most definitely not least, women and men. Were these neatly laid out in some pattern or ... Continue Reading >>
Space, Movement and Flow: The Next Wave
I’ve known for some time, now, that breathing is good! Not because of the effects of the physical breath on my physical body, but because the very process of breathing graces me with a constant reminder of my own, uninterrupted potential for the next wave of expression. In that, my state of being is infinite; as are my intentions and outcomes, beyond any ... Continue Reading >>
Urgency vs Panic
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to spend time with some women who are new to me, in my life. I have become accustomed to spending time with people who know me well through abundant personal contact. I sometimes forget that what I intend to say and what others hear, don’t always match. Such was my discovery during this recent conversation. As we ... Continue Reading >>
Sacred Space in Cyberspace
Slightly more than 18 months have passed since I had the urge to create the Women Gathering Google Group - a place for women to dare to be themselves, for its own sake, regardless of who may see. Over these 18 months, I have laughed, cried, grieved, celebrated and delighted in the presence of those - most unknown to me, personally - who have chosen to show ... Continue Reading >>
Scorecards
It's been a long time since I've considered the notion of 'keeping score'... maybe because now, the games I play are intended exclusively for my own accelerated evolution, and not much else! Is that a good thing? A bad thing? I have no idea - I only know that I love being me. I think that's a clue. A couple of weeks ago, I was reminded of the notion of ... Continue Reading >>
Talking to Myself: Paradigm Shifts
I do that sometimes: have chats with myself, fingers to keyboard... wondering just what I have to say to myself that I've not yet noticed. Know what I mean? One of those explorations is below. Now that it's here - having bubbled up from the invisible to the visibility of these words on a screen/page - I can move on. Maybe, as you read, you will move on, ... Continue Reading >>
Entrepreneurial WELbeing
How do I compress 1000 thoughts, streaming at mach speed through the living organism of this quantum biological processor, into coherent and successive statements that will make sense to the intellect? In this moment, I know fully the visceral meaning of that expression of “... a picture being worth a thousand words! “ So many pictures - and far too many ... Continue Reading >>
Half measures = Whole Life ?
I woke up this morning to this thought: half measures will never get me a whole life. Half a marathon will never get me across the finish line. Half a recipe will never get me a pan of brownies. Half way will never get me to Hawaii! Half of my attention will never get me a whole understanding. How many times in my life have I longed for... strived ... Continue Reading >>
CODE Model Coaching™: Midwifery for the Soul?
I've never been a big fan of the notion of 'coaching'. Way too guy-like... sports-like... and far too reminiscent of the guy standing on the sidelines, running it all while observing the players on the field - the ones engaging life! Guiding, directing; chastising, praising... and all the rest of it that goes with it. Short conversations with clear ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems: Discovering what it is by eliminating what it’s not!
Wow... here I sit, wondering: what will it take? What will be the 'right' combination of words, ideas, notions, experiences, outcomes, tools, frameworks... moments!... that will finally have it be clear; that will finally make it easy and effortless to understand what WEL-Systems® is! 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of this amazingly powerful, ... Continue Reading >>
A Gift to Yourself: Intimate and meaningful conversations
Happy New Year to all! I, for one, am bursting at the seams with the sense of possibility and potential that 2010 offers us all. I know that each of us will carve out our own path as we move forward into the coming days, weeks and months, remembering that it all begins with a single breath. The world is changing - and fast! There are times when I feel ... Continue Reading >>
“My people…”
November has been an incredible month for me - not just because of its intensity but because of the acceleration of my own evolution, as a result of it! November began with the first of two Engaging and Awakening Others women's intensives, offered in Halifax. A small group of women gathered, talking about their lives and the potential that awaited... if ... Continue Reading >>
Sleeping to awaken
I am feeling the urge to reveal myself, to myself. I know of no better way to do this than to allow the words to flow out the ends of my fingers onto the screen, ultimately allowing me to discover who I have become. Last week, in the good company of a loving and ferocious friend, I created space for myself to stop... let all of it go... and rediscover who ... Continue Reading >>
My emerging future…
"Eleven different climate zones generate everything from lush rain forests to arid deserts, black sand beaches to snow-capped mountaintops. The Big Island is Hawaii’s biggest playground." I now better understand what so pulls me to the Big Island of Hawaii. In many ways, I 'feel' just like that! Over my lifetime, some have delighted in but most have been ... Continue Reading >>
Catching up to myself
It's been a busy month! I notice the date of my last post and marvel that it has been less than 30 days and yet, it feels like months have gone by. How does that happen???? Things no longer unfold in increments but in leaps and bounds. Having created the Group of 10 (a gathering of women who know, without a doubt, that each of them IS The One to make a ... Continue Reading >>
Living at mach speed
Almost three weeks since my last visit here. I look at my calendar and count the days and am amazed that it feels like just yesterday.... How does that happen!?!?!?!? I've been working on creating the new series of Guided Reflections : 5 different topics of 2-CD's, each. I must say, there are moments when I get pretty zoned out... allowing myself to ... Continue Reading >>
I had a dream…
.... or was it a vision? Some might say its a ‘phase shift’ or drifting between worlds. Whatever it was, it came with an insight. I was awake and yet knew myself to be dreaming. The dream unfolded in great detail in the time it took for me to draw a breath. The world was in chaos. Massive change - unlike anything we had ever known or could likely ... Continue Reading >>
Pandemic
It's been lingering in the background for some time. In the last few days, its vibration has amped up significantly as Mexico and other countries 'brace for impact' of what many have long intended and been waiting for. It would be easy to tell a long story about this; to spend time and typing and 'pages' in proffering a perspective that would encompass ... Continue Reading >>