Looking for Participants for the new show “Help Desk” that will air on The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)! If you are working through a difficult issue in your life – such as divorce, overcoming addiction, loss of a family member, or financial hardship – you may be a perfect fit. Participants will sit down with [...]
Tag Archives | Motivation
3 Ways to See the Gift In Each Moment
Many people assume ‘gifts’ mean specific things or having certain people in their lives. Though those are definitely good definitions, I think the real gifts are the moments we have because it’s in these moments that we get to experience the events, the people, the things, the thoughts. It’s really the moments that matter. Many [...]
How Healthy Is Your Energetic Bank Account?
Practicing yoga is like making a deposit into an energetic investment account. Every little bit helps, and it will grow exponentially depending on the commitment made to build up the reserve. Just as the account can be piddled away through mindless spending, your precious energy can be depleted through mindless living. We save things to [...]
The Time Is Now: 3 Ways to Get Started On Your Next Venture
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela It feels overwhelming. The voice in your head tells you no. All the reasons why you can’t start now keep streaming through your mind. And then you take a tiny step forward and you see a window of possibility…and you start to believe that [...]
When Your Friends Have Cancer and You’re Healthy
Every day without fail, I find something to be grateful for. Consciously grateful. Some days it is a search. Some days it feels like making something out of nothing as I try to piece together a grateful state of being. Ironically, other days I have so much gratitude I can barely contain myself, bursting with [...]
Saving Lives One Bead At A Time
We just heard two inspiring, heart wrenching, gut churning, funny, amazing life stories, from two Ugandan women, Joan and Teddy, who lifted themselves out of dire poverty and suffering by making and selling paper beads. The poverty is huge. For example, Millie lives on $1 a day earned from crushing rocks in a quarry, and [...]
Vast
Mission: Breakthrough. The intriguing name of the six week yoga challenge at the studio I teach at In Fort Worth, Texas. Each week being a different spiritual theme, this upcoming week is a focus on life itself. Broad? Yes. Scary? Possibly. Freeing? Most definitely. As I think about what message I want to spread to [...]
14 Juicy Quotes to Shape Your Identity
Who are you? What costume do you wear? What story do you tell yourself about yourself? Who are you? Really? As I head off to Rowe Camp and Conference Center to lead my workshop, Feed Your Soul: Change Your Weight, I review my story in my own head (as if I could review it in someone [...]
Indulge in Connection
It is easy to move in the shadows, to look down and avoid a stranger’s glance. It is easy to not draw attention to your magnificence and to shame others for showing theirs. What if you decided that today was the day you were to step out from under the cloak of invisibility? What if [...]
A One-Year-Old’s Perspective of Perfection
Part one of this piece revealed some of the raw truths of parenting from the parent’s perspective. Now let’s see how a one year old feels about it. Perfection is overrated, and a total myth in parenthood. Truth. Before my son was born almost seven years ago, I proudly stated he would watch no TV, [...]
