Mindfulness is NOT a Self-Improvement Project

It took me 10 years of Buddhist practice and study to learn this lesson. It took me pursuing a Master’s Degree in Comparative Religious Studies at Naropa University, several month long meditation retreats in the Tibetan tradition at the Shambhala Mountain Center, a...

How to Win Your 2019 With Ease

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love goals! I love setting goals, I love envisioning the future, dreaming big and trying to catch up with what’s possible. My clients and staff know that I come prepared with worksheets, with Maslow’s hierarchy of...

Allowing Heaven

I was going to write something beautiful and elaborate about how we can trap ourselves and create a self-limiting reality that becomes our norm or we can get out of our own way and allow ourselves to experience heaven on earth. But ironically, or not so, I kept...

The Lost Art of Boredom

The best thing my mom ever did was ground me from church. Wait, that’s not true. The best thing my mom ever did was adopt me and my sister and show us unconditional love and positive regard. The second best thing she ever did was ground me from church. (Fast...

A Smile In Hell

I grew up reading Dante’s Inferno. My mom was a high school English teacher and tutored students at our home, so I had the benefit of being surrounded by books and enriched by reading and discussing many of the great classics and works of literature. My mom even...