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June 4, 2010A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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April 30, 2010Is your heart heavy today? I could feel its weight just as the clouds began to fill the sky. A...
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April 11, 2010Apathy often has its roots in the odd, unexpected body memory of prior pain that is evoked by new love.
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February 27, 2010Today, I stopped praying for things to get easier. It just occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary. For many...
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January 19, 2010Rather than an eye for an eye, karma can be seen as an act of love.
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December 22, 2009The function of compassion for those who feel cut off is to return them to the whole. This is not...
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December 17, 2009Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
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In an era of waning social ties, sensitivity to rejection is common. An article in Psychology Today offers solutions.
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December 1, 2009Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.
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November 25, 2009I have watched the movie You’ve Got Mail every week for two months. One might think I find it appealing...
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November 9, 2009Certain needs tend to evoke emotional responses that make the situation worse in a way that aggravates the need, which...
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November 6, 2009I want to contact that which is real in others, but the meeting of minds never lasts. The souls who...
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November 2, 2009Being in total darkness recently took on new meaning for me. Rock bottom is not necessarily a bad place to...
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October 26, 2009The ways of love include silence and solitude, parting and disharmony–so deep its trust in the core of light within...
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Finding the three things that heal loneliness (sensual connection, conversation, and communion) during an evening of solitude.
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October 17, 2009A poem about finding communion during loneliness.
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Mother Teresa said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty of all.” When I think...
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In Buddhism, samsara refers to a certain way of experiencing reality that involves an endless creation of mental worlds, or...
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The struggle between loving and wanting to be loved is delicate and sometimes confusing but ultimately rife with beautiful life...
Written by an embodiment psychologist, Zen Buddhist, and single mother, "Waking Heart" is a diary of synchronicities, lessons both learned and forgotten, accidental awakenings, and the cultivation of love.