Self-Discovery

Leaping off cliffs is a way of life

You figure it just takes one huuuuuge leap of faith to hurl yourself off the metaphorical cliff before you’re off and … well, dropping through the sky like a sweaty meat bomb until you magically grow wings and reclaim your wits about you and then it’s smooth sailing forevermore. But no, that’s not how it

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The world never ends where you think it does

Recently, my sister lived a few months in an adorable cabin on a beautiful mountain village street in southern California. While she was there, she never ventured further up her street, beyond her cabin and away from the main road. She would later tell me she simply assumed the street ended just beyond the bend

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Are you done "showering in Denny's bathroom sink" already?

It seems like every single wildly successful transformational/motivational/spiritual speaker/author I’ve ever encountered has a story to tell about the awful time in their lives when they were homeless, sleeping in an alley/bus-stop/car/empty field, washing their clothes in a Denny’s bathroom or their hair with the 7-Eleven soda machine (discreetly). They were either cracked out, drunk, disorderly,

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There’s nothing you ‘have to’ do … ever!

We need to watch our language!!! I’m not talking about cursing. I’m pretty sure God wants us to curse. I’m talking about the language most of us use everyday that subtly makes ME a victim to MY OWN choices. How many times a day do you say (or think) “I have to do this,” or

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Slow Down. Productivity is Overrated.

I just returned from a 30 day solo retreat in the mountains. My time there was deliciously tranquil. I removed batteries from ticking clocks. Refused internet service. Kept my phone in a drawer. I woke up twice to deep snowfall slathered across the entire landscape, fresh, romping coyote tracks circling my cabin. I went hiking

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Facebook Causes Divorce? … I Don't Think So.

Facebook is now cited as a contributing factor in 1 out of every 3 divorces. Most people hear this and frame Facebook as a disrupting force, something that has come into our lives and suddenly made relationships even more challenging and complicated. Facebook even gives us the option of listing our relationship status as “It’s

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Reading is like Thinking with Someone Else’s Thoughts

I read Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth a few years ago. I was so moved by reading this book which seemed to describe everything one ever needed to know about being alive, clear, AND happy, that I quickly decided I never needed to read another book again. Time went by and Tolle’s insights that so

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