I was visiting the WGGG (Women Gathering Google Group) today and was reminded of this recording from earlier in 2010. As I listened, I heard new things - not because they're new but because I am. Women's Voices - Women's Choices is a testament to the simplicity of the power of women. Maybe you'll find something new, for you, too. ... Continue Reading >>
Emerging Futures
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 >>
A Meaningfully Sustainable Life/World
It's been an incredible few weeks. Lots of 'stuff' going on; so much creativity and innovation; so many new ideas, projects, conversations, programs, experiences, etc. coming into expression, leaving me breathless with the potential revealed... ready and waiting for me to engage the next wave! Does it get any better than this? Last week, I spent two days ... 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 >>
Losing Faith in Organized Religion
Once again, allegations of institutionalized child abuse perpetrated by the clergy of the Catholic Church fill the news. This time, Europe is awakening to what we for all too long have not wanted to see or hear or know as a truth in our own experiences: we are a species that cannibalizes our young. I've written about this in many other times and spaces. ... 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 >>
When does less become more?
When DOES less become more? When does slowing down speed up my evolution? When can doing nothing be exactly the right thing to do? This may be a moment that will pass, or it could be the impending turn in the road that will take me to a new destination. As I take this breath and lay fingers to keyboard, I have no idea which truth will become my own. I ... 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 >>
When does virtue become a vice?
I am so mindful of reactions to and language around those moments when women are perceived to be less than 'patient' and 'understanding' and 'caring'. What exactly does that mean? In a recent chat with a friend and colleague, the thought that kept coming into my awareness was about 'patience is a virtue'... leading me to wonder: when does a virtue become ... 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 >>
Thinking About… Breathing
Breathing is good! Begin to pay attention to how many times during your day you catch yourself holding your breath or breathing very shallowly into the top of the lungs. In that moment of noticing, don’t bother chastising yourself, just stop…take a long, slow, deep breath….and let your intellect relax into your body. If you want to deepen your state of ... Continue Reading >>
Bullying
I read Tanya's posting and had to move away from it. As I 'heard' the small voice of her son, torrents of memories flooded back into my awareness of a time, not-so-long-ago, when her voice would have been my own. Although the difference would have been in my son being the one in the schoolyard being harassed/bullied/harmed, both would have been victims. I ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Experience
Trust your experience! To trust your experience, you must first learn to trust your body since that’s the only place experience can occur. Your intuition…your instincts….your ‘gut’ feel…are your body’s way of offering you huge amounts of information in a single wave of intelligence. Life expands quickly and effortlessly when we choose to pay ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Heart
Be gentle with yourself. Without that, your capacity for compassion, tolerance and patience with others will be a philosophy that struggles to become your way of life. Learning to be gentle with ourselves teaches us to recognize that moment when it is so desperately required in someone else. ... Continue Reading >>
Thinking About… Chaos
Bifurcation is such an interesting experience in the body. We feel two distinct things at the same time: the chaos of the old coming apart and the great excitement/anticipation of the creation of the new. They co-exist, occupying the same space and the same time, and the sensation plays itself out in the body. Personally? My life has been at its most ... 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 >>
Noticing my life
It's been a busy day in the discovery department! Reading blog postings by three amazing young women - Naomi and Lisa and Amy - and marveling at who they have discovered themselves to be! Wow... in such a short period of time, their lives have exploded with their own genius. Does it get any better than that? Watching a great tv show as a world-renowned ... Continue Reading >>
The pause that refreshes
Tomorrow, I head for Toronto for a matinee, dinner with wonderful friends, a stay in a 5-star hotel.... and the pause that will allow me to leave my existing thoughts behind. It's not that they're not good thoughts or useful thoughts or even greatly beneficial thoughts, it's that they are thoughts of a kind that have shaped my world and yet have, in some ... 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 >>
Not knowing IS the way
There are moments (like this one) when I realize that I have not chosen an easy path. Even as I write those words, I know I have not chosen (as if it could have been anything else!) but have simply unfolded in the direction that has now become my life. Something inside presses me to make sense of this for the benefit of others and yet, I decline to follow ... 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 >>
Bubbling up from the turmoil
Wow... has it been that long? As much as I could tell the story of it all, the story now seems completely irrelevant. What feels so much more potent is the place where I continue to stand, not always easy or comfortable and yet knowing that it is exactly where I need to be. So many thoughts continue to come into my awareness, some with great ease - ... Continue Reading >>
Speechless
Rare is the occasion when I cannot find the right words to express what moves inside me. I've spent 40 years of my life - as a way of life! - on this journey of personal discovery and evolution. I'm not quite sure when the turn in the road took me beyond seeking with my head to allowing myself to be found through the body; from seeking to solve a problem ... Continue Reading >>
Whose fault is it, anyway?
Sometimes, I miss having someone else to blame for the state of my body... of my life. I lament the 'good ole days' of believing - heart and soul - that the world 'out there' was doing things to me... that other people were doing things to me... and that I was a righteous and legitimate victim of my circumstances. There are moments when I long for it to be ... Continue Reading >>
If WEL-Systems® is a gateway to a new paradigm, what’s the old one?
In all my years of working with others to help them understand and access the paradigm that a WEL-Systems journey makes possible, it has never occurred to me to first speak to and identify the existing paradigm in which we live. I have always assumed that it was obvious. These days, I'm thinking, not so much.... Trying to answer that question is like ... Continue Reading >>
The desire to pounce
The 6-day ‘Manifesting a Meaningful Life’ experience is THE conversation that lights me up! Big! Bold! Boundless and formless! Edgy, provocative, compelling… not because it’s a pathway but because it’s the unsettled, feral essence of our potential being. It is not that we move through those conversations, it is more that we trek… and climb the rock ... Continue Reading >>
Feral Consciousness
In my own, decades-old journey of personal discovery, I have long been a student of the notion of the evolution of consciousness; or the acceleration of consciousness; or those of awakened consciousness and expanded consciousness. In my own thoughts and in my conversations with others, there has been this ‘other-worldly' quality of and to consciousness... ... Continue Reading >>
My Dilemma of the Terrible Embrace
I continue to be held in the terrible embrace of my two worlds : the one I have lived and the one I know is waiting for me, to be lived. I see it played out in the inner turmoil and tension I am experiencing around the notion of decloaking; around the notion of ‘being silenced' vs ‘being silent' - one imposed from the outside, in, making me a helpless, ... Continue Reading >>
Density, intensity and manifestation
It happened on Saturday and has been rumbling around inside me since then. A seemingly harmless Valentine's Day breakfast among friends - and my life is changed. I arrived with a sense of agitation, having spent about 20 hours editing the soon-to-be ready for production, multi-CD set on 'CODE Model Coaching™ - Part 2: The Awakened Self'. Having ... Continue Reading >>
Paradigm of BEING
It's one of those moments. Things are moving way too fast - inside, where I live - for me to be able to calibrate or track for specifics, or for information in any kind of order. It is all an explosion of formless and nameless ‘stuff' and yet, I know it all makes perfect sense. For some time, I've been mindful of the degree to which a WEL-Systems® ... Continue Reading >>
Being In-Different
As my world continues to unfold, moment-to-moment in an Emerging Future, I am beginning to notice something about myself. I care deeply and passionately. I live my life from RIGing - for myself and others. I am indifferent. Hmmm.... I wonder out loud... how do all those fit together? I am in-different. I don't need to be the same as you or have you be ... Continue Reading >>
Money and Manifestation : Follow Up
After posting this, Noreen Mejias - a contributing author to Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women's Genius and accomplished Financial Advisor - shared her thoughts on the Women Gathering Google Group . Take the time to read Noreen's unique and profoundly enlivened way of engaging with others! As you scroll down to the bottom of the posting, what ... Continue Reading >>
Money and Manifestation
A small group of women gathering, talking... about the impact and meaning of 'money' in their lives. The language of 'currency', 'money', 'wealth' and 'abundance' came into my awareness as I was getting ready to head out to this gathering. For me, this is another layer in the Currency of Consciousness conversation. It was indeed, a great conversation ... Continue Reading >>
Polar ice cap: just how fast is it melting?
I got an email today from a family friend who has recently been posted to the Far North. Lou left Ottawa in late '08 and is now living and working amongst those in the community of Qikiqtarjuaq (spell that without looking!). Those of us who are in Lou's life have the great fun of getting her newsy (and sometimes very funny!) updates and pics on life in ... Continue Reading >>
The currency of consciousness
Day 2 of a New Year. It feels fresh and ready, like the proverbial blank slate waiting for me to place my mark in the creation of my own life. I'm aware of many things. Some have to do with what has been and some have to do with what I believe will be. And, in a holographic universe, it will be because I say so. Not like imposing force of will and ... Continue Reading >>
RIGing – a powerful alternative to ‘love’
I've come to conclude that the language of ‘love' is highly overrated! Having just completed a week-long conversation with a small group of women gathering... talking about their lives... it became clear to me that we have mastered a huge variety of ways to denigrate ourselves in the name of ‘love'. "Love' is not real. It's a nominalization... a code word ... Continue Reading >>
The Audacity of Being Present
I've been reading the blogs and emails of some of the women I spend time with. I've been chatting and listening to the direction their lives have taken since our last time together. There is a theme emerging and I believe it is greatly important to pay attention to it. The theme is this: the audacity of daring to claim our own lives! The audacity of ... Continue Reading >>
Sorting out Shadows
More pieces are coming into my awareness. Yesterday, I had time with a wonderful woman whose company lights up my day! Lisa dropped by the office because of a technical problem with CD's... only to discover once she got there, there were no problems. AND we had a great conversation! I feel compelled to acknowledge that our messages come in the strangest ... Continue Reading >>
Hints of things to come
I'm in the middle of a retreat or program experience, and I find myself observing myself saying something. A small voice inside me (somewhere) says: "Pay attention to that - that's important. " And in the blink of an eye, it's gone. Hours will go by, possibly even days, and it happens again. I'm saying something and notice a sentence or a new word in ... Continue Reading >>
So many forks…. so many roads!
I am all over the map! Not a day goes by that I am not mindful of the degree to which my life is unscripted... without rituals and routines... a constant invitation for me to stop and wonder: how does the godforce that I AM choose to live - in this day, in this moment, in this breath? Without exception, the moment always comes with a choice to be ... Continue Reading >>
Restlessness….
I am aware of the degree to which I am restless... agitated... ready to move! I am also mindful of the speed at which change can occur (from my Manifesting 6-day of last week) and the alternative state of paralysis that is a reflection of the attempt to manifest from the intellect. Slooooowwwwwwwing down to re-enter what is considered 'normal' is creating ... Continue Reading >>
From depression/despair to delight!
I had an amazing experience, recently. A very dear friend wrote me in a state of despair. In a moment of engaging, I shared some thoughts with him - and his world changed. Imagine! Such profound shifts from such little effort! Can it really be that effortless? In a matter of days, he started a new life and is now LIVING! If that's not magic, I don't ... Continue Reading >>
Get off my holodeck!
Wow... two in one day! I really do have to stop listening to the radio..... I was driving to pick up my son and was listening to CBC's 'AphCanada' - which I found very disturbing today since this same son intends to enlist and join Canada's military. I find myself wondering... maybe I should have let them play with guns, all those years ago. But I ... Continue Reading >>
Invitations to greatness
There are always bumps in the road. Just how dull would it be if the road were always smooth, without any twists or turns to test our attention and our skill.... to test our willingness and ability... to own both the destination and the journey? I'm one of the lucky ones. In my life, I cross paths with more genius women than likely my fair share. ... Continue Reading >>
The forces that shape culture
I really must stop listening to the radio when I'm in the car. Will I ever not have something to say???? Today's topic was young offenders and the impact (or lack thereof) of longer sentences. An interview with a criminologist spoke to the degree to which more and longer incarceration periods were not achieving the outcome of reducing crime rates ... Continue Reading >>
Another day…
I sit here, coffee in hand, ready for my day to start. Another full day of editing the recorded material from my last 'Decloaking' experience in the program room. I expect to complete the editing and move on to track and production details by the end of this week. But then, I said that last week - and life took a few turns of its own, redirecting and ... Continue Reading >>
Alive and well and trundling along…
Wow! Time sure flies when you're having fun! When I checked the date of my last post to this blog, I was struck by how quickly I've gone from July 7th to August 21st. Lots has happened and I know there is lots more to come. Since July, I've seen my life take some dramatic turns. Perhaps the most stunning (for me) was that the July offering of ... Continue Reading >>
Imaginal Cells
It seems that since that fateful day in January 2006, my life has been a constant stream of turning points. From that small gathering in January 2006 came the Declaration of Evolution by Intention, the Sekhmet Rising book, Emerging Futures as a process for mindful and meaningful living, a profound shift in the approach to 'certification', new direction for ... Continue Reading >>
For the love of dancing… Part 2
Even when I sleep, I am still dancing! I awoke this morning with an yet another insight into my experience of dancing. My dancing is not dependent on whether or not I like the music, the people or the environment. Dancing is an essential form of expression of who I AM in my world. Music or no music; classical, rock or jazz, dancing is still the ... Continue Reading >>
For the love of dancing
I am a dancer. I have no memory of anything other than loving the movement of body, connected and engaging in flow, with or without music. I remember moments of walking down the street, being present to the vibration of every cell in my body, as it engaged in the flow of getting from here to there; vibrating to, responding to and dancing with the sounds of ... Continue Reading >>
Living is a choice…
... but living fully is a determination... an intention and an accompanying presence that will not be swayed by anything outside itself... and one that requires we be awake, fully present and both willing and able to engage. Living fully is no small feat in a world of mediocrity and complacency. That's not rhetoric but the cold, hard truth of what stands ... Continue Reading >>
Breathing is good….
Since returning from the Emerging Futures: Entrepreneurial Women retreat, I'm noticing that I can hardly breathe! From one day to the next, I catch myself holding my breath - time and again - and wonder what that's all about! Typically, breathing comes easily and effortlessly, bringing with it a sense of the vast Space that I AM for my own evolution. But ... Continue Reading >>
Emerging Species, Women and Pollination
I spent last week with a small group of women, talking... about many things, all of which were indicative of but a sliver of their own potential... and mine. (Visit the Women Gathering blog for more about the week.) I was deeply moved by my time with them. I witnessed terror and courage; grief, sadness and loss sharing space with determination and hope. ... Continue Reading >>
What I’m up to
It feels like I'm ready to come up for air and check out the rest of the world. Between my time in Hawaii, my re-entry into the world of grocery shopping and laundry, engaging in programs and with clients and - let's not forget! - the riveting moments of 'Dancing with the Stars', I'm just now feeling like I'm back in the game and ready to play! For some ... Continue Reading >>
My life: re-entry
I love being in the deep end of the pool! I love the power of the conversations and the way they change lives. "Just talking' is more than enough to guide us all through 'invite and allow' that we might find a new place to stand. I love the intensity that accompanies this highly personal, individual and unique journey of discovery. No two of us are the ... Continue Reading >>
Radical, you say???
That we change is not what separates us from the rest of the world. HOW we change, is. We are not the first (and likely will not be the last) who claim to have found a way to accelerate their personal evolution; to create profoundly meaningful lives for ourselves. Given that I've been in the ‘personal growth' world both as a participant and as a ... Continue Reading >>
I am a changed woman…
My time in Hawaii is almost complete. Tomorrow, I leave the Big Island until the spring of 2009 when I return for a four-day retreat for women. Emerging Futures: Power, Passion and Purpose will change lives... including my own! (More information will follow on this 'Emerging Futures' retreat re dates, etc.) I am already a changed woman. During my time ... Continue Reading >>
Hawaii completions
They're almost all gone, now... with only 5 remaining on the Big Island and most of them leaving tomorrow. It has been a magical time through the Mauna Lani Experience and Huna conversation and is, I know, the beginning of more things to come. We gathered to explore connection - to the elements, to each other and to Self. The conversations were powerful ... Continue Reading >>
Ohana gathers
And so, we begin. I am on the Big Island of Hawaii, at the magnificent Mauna Lani Bay Resort. Slowly, over the last few days, 'ohana' (or family of choice) has been gathering in this place to spend time in shared discovery. Our first time together will be in about an hour, at the Aloha Reception for the 22 of us who are here. In this moment, my heart ... Continue Reading >>
Taking it back!
Another one of those moments... driving to work listening to the CBC. This time, I caught the tail end of a conversation about how difficult it is becoming (at least, in Ontario) for people to find a family physician. The conversation also explored the characteristics of the patients that doctors don't want (my words, not theirs....that would be much too ... Continue Reading >>
Lives Changing
I decided a long time ago that what lights me up - what makes my life worth living - is engaging with others for lives to change. This came profoundly into my awareness today as I listened to a CBC report on babies being abandoned at birth in some far-away country because these were 'incest babies' (babies conceived as a result of rape by a family member) ... Continue Reading >>
Going home…
This time next week, I will have been on the Big Island of Hawaii for 24 hours. The last time I was there (September 2006), I missed the earthquake by three weeks. However, during my entire stay, I could feel the earth move under my feet; and I could hear its sound. As much as I knew that 2007 was not my time to be in Hawaii, I know that April 2008, ... Continue Reading >>
Sainthood and Martyrdom: It’s a girl thing
I spent time today with a woman I consider to be a good friend. We've known each other for about 6 years, and yet it feels like just the slightest brush of time. If you offered me money to pick one thing about her that I don't like, I'd be hard pressed to come up with something. When I think of her or engage with her, my experience is always one of ... Continue Reading >>
Activist for Acceleration of Human Evolution
It seems like I blinked and a couple of weeks went by. I've been listening to and editing for production the raw recorded material from the October 2007 offering of Emerging Futures: Leadership Redefined - Reclaimed. What an amazing experience! What felt so strange about it is that as I listened to my own voice (there was more than 24 hours of recorded ... Continue Reading >>
Bifurcation for mothers and their sons
I care deeply for the people in my life. My mother tells me that my greatest strength lies in my obvious and unwavering passion for my family. (I think she's a little biased....) And given the nature of the work that I do - of how I live my life and the great intimacy that comes from my time spent in experiences with clients - my clients very often come ... Continue Reading >>
Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, Lynn Andrews and so many others
There are many people in the world who are devoting their lives to helping human beings find their way to more expansive and authentic expression of 'the divine' in their lives. My personal favourites include people like Lynn Andrews, Bruce Lipton, Candace Pert, Joseph Chilton Pearce and many, many others. Each of them, in his/her own way, is offering an ... Continue Reading >>
Instructions for opening your eyes
What you see depends on where you stand and what direction you choose to look in. Hardly rocket science and yet, it appears that we so rarely think about any of it. What we see also depends on whether our eyes are open or closed. Try as they might, no one can explain to you how to open your eyes. You have to just do it, trusting your body to guide the ... Continue Reading >>
The power of contagion of an awakened organic collective
When I am in this state (which I never really quite know how to describe to anyone else that may make sense to them!), new ideas come in burps. Like blips on the screen of life, they just show up, make their presence felt and then disappear. However, something lingers and gravitates to yet another something that has been hanging there... waiting... ... Continue Reading >>
Waiting…
Sometimes, silence says it all. I think of those times as moments in the void; as small movements and ripplings in the womb of potential; as my world shapeing itself without striving or effort, without intention or design; gaining strength by being quiet, being still and letting go. I seem to be in my greatest time of l'lessons learned'. As strange as it ... Continue Reading >>
Growing pains
I've been living with chaos in my life, off and on, for a lot of years (and I know it is often no easy task). As powerful as a WEL-Systems® approach is, and as deeply meaningful as it is to me in the living of my own life, I had become restless about it and who I was becoming. I care deeply for the people I engage with; and as much as I delight in their ... Continue Reading >>
A new breed of woman?
I started my day with telephone and email conversations with three women, one of whom I’ve known for years and the other two much more recent entries onto the holodeck of my experience. Each conversation left me filled with deep love for who each of these women is: full of wonder and willingness to engage; unsure and moving forward with trepidation and ... Continue Reading >>
Open note to Kathryn
(See Kathryn's comments on 'The right to change my mind')Hi Kathryn,Thank you - for being a living example of the genius we instinctively ARE in the world! I can't think of a single thing that is more connected to the body experience than a bed! It is, after all, where we begin and end our days; where we surrender our need to hold ourselves up to the simple ... Continue Reading >>
Illusion and reality
As much as it's always great to get away, it's equally great to be home! I just spent time at Disneyworld in Florida. Interesingly, I saw as many adults without children as I did those with! I also saw more metaphors for living than I had noticed on the last trip to Fantasyland. I was very aware of distinctions between 'illusion' and 'reality', never ... Continue Reading >>
The vibration of urgency!
I'm feeling more 'prickly' than usual, today. Not quite sure what that's all about AND my body is telling me to pay close attention to what is now in flow. My world has been stirred up by the recent gathering of women at the Women Awakening event; by recent blog entries from Anita, and Amy and Marie ; and by my subsequent posting to the Women Gathering ... Continue Reading >>
Business is personal
I've recently been nominated for Businesswoman of the Year in the Entrepreneurial category, sponsored by the Women's Business Network of Ottawa. In addition to my appreciation for what I know is the honour of being nominated, I have also become very mindful of my own thoughts about what, exactly, my business is about. Many years ago, when I started the ... Continue Reading >>
The right to change my mind
Maybe that's as good a way as any to describe what an Emerging Future looks/feels like : I get to change my mind. I get to change my mind often and without hesitation and explanation. I get to step into a thought and in doing so, find another just over that edge and follow it, instead. I get to live fully, moment to moment, and have that living reflected ... Continue Reading >>
Major Mystery: what I do for a living
Mom and I just got back from spending the day together. Man! That woman is a hoot! I sure hope that there is some genetic coding in there, somewhere, that will allow me to look forward to being 83 and as irreverant, outrageous and funny as she is! The drive to the hair stylist's took 40 mintues - and we laughed all the way. She's really an amazing woman. ... Continue Reading >>
Today is the first day of the rest of my life
I wrote The Year of Practical Magic... and The 5 Keys to Making it Happen as a reminder to myself to keep moving forward. It is also the first time I've written this way - about 5 keys to anyting! I have identified the 5 things that I believe are essential to creating a different life. Not just talking about and/or thinking about a different life but ... Continue Reading >>
Intention – Mindfulness – Magic!
Once again, the end of one year and the beginning of another. Cycles and rhythms. Inhaling and exhaling. Ceaseless… relentless… harbinger of the mindlessness of repetition and the potential of the hope that is carried in the dawning of a new day. Closure. Fresh starts. Moments to reflect on completions and things still undone. If I were to tell the ... Continue Reading >>
Spontaneously being our essential selves
It’s Christmas Eve. No matter how it actually unfolds, I am always mindful of a darkened sky, stars blinking through the crisp, cold air; ever-decreasing activity on the road as people reach their destination and settle in for the long-anticipated time with family and loved ones; snow falling softy and quietly, adding to the sparkling cloak that Gaia has ... Continue Reading >>
Staying conscious in a collective coma
I had breakfast today, with a woman who has become a deeply meaningful part of my life. I would trust her with my life and, perhaps more importantly, I would trust her with the lives of my sons. I do not say that easily or loosely! My time with her is always a great adventure of discovery, about myself. She and I both know that as we share aspects of our ... Continue Reading >>