Yesterday, I had the great joy of spending time in conversation with Anne Bérubé - human being extraordinaire. Anne and I met a long time ago and over these many years, I’ve been able to watch as she has - more and more - come into the unique expression of her own powerful presence; exploring and discovering her reason for being here… in this place/time… ... Continue Reading >>
Evolution
Parenting: Power in the Hands of Imperfection
Let me introduce you to a new Substack offering from Simply Sarah - an unfurling wonder to behold! Sarah is a single Mom, having sort-of-recently adopted a young girl with a highly volatile internal landscape, sculpted from a 'troubled' start in challenging circumstances. Enter Sarah... bringing courage, compassion and new hope to a young girl in ... Continue Reading >>
Possibility
In any and all experience, the seed of a greater possibility lies dormant... awaiting the power of our intention. The question is not whether or not it is there - the question is whether or not we will do what it takes to bring it to Life! ... Continue Reading >>
Self Directed Evolution: New Approach
When circumstances change, we adapt or - far too often - find ourselves adrift in a sea of confusion and uncertainty. In those moments, discovering how to turn to our inner cues for guidance can be the lifeline that pulls us into a more powerful context for choosing meaningfully and with a future direction in mind. If this has a resonance for you, this ... Continue Reading >>
Unstoppable emergence
Ah yes… the unstoppable power of emergence; of that natural and essential state of Being that demands constant and perpetual movement… and change… and evolution. That is the essence of who we are. In other words: we are not intended to ever be fully baked; to ever be ‘done’; to ever think that there is any end-state to which we can/must aspire… and all else ... Continue Reading >>
Guest Post: Erika Lucivero ~ Get Out of Jail Free
I call this one 'get out of jail free', because there isn't a jail big enough to constrain a GodForce. It's about being easy on yourself and thinking easy. "Don't be so hard on yourself." I've heard this just in the last month from three separate people with whom I deeply respect. So by the third person it was enough for me to look at what this means ... Continue Reading >>
Sheila Winter Wallace: Owning it All !
We live in a world - at a time - when 'truth' has become fluid. No longer easily identifiable as a touchstone to remind us or a guide-stone to show us the way, we wander in the desert of contradictions, fabrications and outright deceptions. Without sense of any destination, we are left with the deeply-uprooted consequences of our daily struggle to find ... Continue Reading >>
Awaken and Reclaim: Stela Shakti
"How “reality” is structured in our mind impacts the quality of life we believe we have access to. But, is what we’ve got really all there is? All there could be? In my experience, the more I inquire about myself within the good company of other curious women, the more I discover, the more empowered I know myself to be." In times of great uncertainty (like ... Continue Reading >>
Storytellers, Trust and Reality
From the moment of our conception, the stories begin. As cells divide and begin to form what will become our bodies, the vibrations of sound echo inside our tiny chamber as our mother speaks to herself or any other. Over time, we develop the sensory capacity to make distinctions… noticing the vibrations of sounds and the often-rapidly changing chemical ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Sovereignty and consciousness
"How you see the world depends on your perceptual filters. Those filters shape: How you read the data. Which media you follow. Which voices you trust. Which institutions you allow to guide your behaviour. All reinforce the mindset you’ve already got." (Stela Shakti) Another compelling challenge to the habituated (and mindless, devoid-of-effort) ... Continue Reading >>
New Normal?
Yuval Noah Harari: We become what we think about
No matter what the moment presents, we are faced with deciding how it's going to go. Either (A) we allow the moment to become the context for our decisions, or (B) we expand the context of who/what we are from within which we make choices that redefine the moment. Perhaps not as familiar, habituated or easy as (A) might appear to be, (B) has a future that ... Continue Reading >>
Masterful Liars
It is not a good or a bad time… it is simply the time we are in. We find ourselves here and now because we have what it takes to move through this; and if we are both willing and able to embrace this moment - without resistance, without fear and without the desire to run - we will find our way through. I am here and now because the I AM (the ... Continue Reading >>
Evolution unending: unmarked territory beckons
As always, my time spent with the amazing and precious LesDebs (Deb Ozarko and Deb Gleason) has left me with more to ponder. During a very recent conversation, we found ourselves travelling along a familiar path of exploring what evolution - for its own sake rather than for the need to solve a problem - requires and demands of us. At one point, we came ... Continue Reading >>
Simple Choices – Complex Results
In my retirement, my attention has turned to recognizing, acknowledging and deeply appreciating how immensely fortunate I am to have family and friends that I cherish. For decades, I was drawn to engage in what was, for me, the only way I knew how: caring about and focused on how we, as human beings, were expressing so far below what was possible for us; and ... Continue Reading >>
The Chooser Shapes the Choice
It has been said that we are not human beings having a spiritual experience - we are spiritual beings having a human experience. It may well be that the Great Game of our existence is to find our way back and reclaim the very spark of our creation. Perhaps, in this, there is no greater evidence of the power of choice, to determine the context from which ... Continue Reading >>
Finding my tribe…
Perhaps, if we can find grace in our own mortality, we can find courage in our day-to-day expression of Life. One of the great benefits of ‘retirement’ is a redistribution of time. Same number of hours in a day - different allocation of how I embrace them. So often, I would be frustrated by the many, many books, articles, videos, podcasts, etc. that I ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Penetrating Cultural Coma
Life unfolds within a larger collective of others. Our unique and individual lives are touched by and often shaped by the perspectives and choices of others that include family and friends; colleagues and clients; and the cumulative impact of those whose faces we may never see and yet, their choices can shape the context within which we find our lives ... 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 >>
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 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 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 >>
Revisiting Possibility
Lots going on in my life, these days. Sometimes, I need to be reminded that I am always choosing; that I am always the one making the decisions and setting the boundaries on my world. I get to say 'yes' or 'no'; and I get to declare where I draw the line in the sand of my own being. Maybe you'd welcome that kind of reminder for yourself, in your life, ... Continue Reading >>
Reaping what we mindfully sow
It's Wednesday and I'm mindful of my commitment to myself to listen to/for something that will expand my world. This one (on Evolution by Intention), I've listened to a few times, mindful that it's not a quick listen; it's not an easy listen; and it's not a catchy little ditty that you can hum when you're leaving the show! It has however, reminded me of who ... 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 >>
Evolution by Intention: New Beginnings for Weary Souls (audio)
A recording by Louise LeBrun; duration = 14:35 We are slowly, but surely, coming to recognize that we need a new place to stand in the creation of our lives and our world. Building on or seeking to change what is, may no longer be enough to offer the transformation that we so greatly desire and require. Take a moment to consider how else we might choose 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>