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April 7, 2010How to identify healthy forms of emotional support and healers that are empowering rather than disempowering.
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April 2, 2010Archetypal wisdom on how women’s “falling apart” can open the doors to awakening.
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March 29, 2010On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
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March 28, 2010Beautiful quotes from a fellow traveler.
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March 23, 2010Today I felt my Beloved in the soil under my feet and in the bark on the trees.
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March 20, 2010Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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March 19, 2010Ripples from a monumental act of love now fill my world. In the presence of profound kindness, every molecule of...
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March 7, 2010 Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it? A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character...
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March 5, 2010Periods of strain can erode your strength and test your faith in life, but there are ways to approach them...
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March 3, 2010When we experience pain, we create a pain self. This pain self is connected to a subset of our usual...
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March 1, 2010Sunday morning I woke up contemplating the process of grief. Thoughts of former loves constantly fill my mind. When I...
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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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February 23, 2010Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
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February 21, 2010We are never cut off from love. I say farewell to a former love and find that exclusion feels good.
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February 17, 2010An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 16, 2010In this frozen moment, your warm consciousness finds all existence waiting.
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February 14, 2010If you are beset by a negative self-image, especially one that is self-fulfilling and reflected back to you by others...
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February 11, 2010What would you do if your lifelong search for wholeness finally reached the finish line? If the problems you devoted...
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February 10, 2010Again and again, I have this same experience. Some situation in my life is causing pain, something I can hardly...
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February 9, 2010Encountering your worst fear, a situation that means the end of you, so it seems, sink into it. Don’t try...
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February 9, 2010The tribal-minded people, like orchids, wither here. The souls looking for sun and rain on the outside, for a hospitable...
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February 7, 2010Take a breath. Feel the air enter your body. Embrace every sensation, thought, and emotion coursing through you in this...
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February 5, 2010Last night, I was awake all night, while sleeping, enjoying another one of those full nights resting in clear, lucid,...
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February 3, 2010There comes a time when the dark forces in your life step into the light, remove their masks, and reveal...
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February 2, 2010Finishing Jan’s book. And waking up more fully, more deeply. Dawn taking root. The holy fallout which I read about...
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January 31, 2010Last night, I went out for a night on the town with a new prayer on my lips. Instead of...
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January 31, 2010I’m learning to ground myself in something deeper. I’ve been reading more of Jan’s book (When Fear Falls Away, by...
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January 30, 2010When peace and tranquility, bliss even, begins to fill most every moment, healing feels complete. These past few weeks, I’ve...
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January 29, 2010We are enveloped in intricate patterns of perfect healing. In every moment, from every direction, we’re given exactly what we...
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January 27, 2010When there is no way to make things right, love and courage illuminate what never falls apart.
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January 24, 2010 What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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January 20, 2010A poem about the effortlessness of divine love followed by an essay on surrender by EnlightenedBeings.com
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January 19, 2010 Rather than an eye for an eye, karma can be seen as an act of love.
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January 16, 2010For nearly a year, twice every month, I attended an event in town known as the Barefoot Boogie. Set in...
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January 14, 2010I am being reassembled. The process is unmistakeable. It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
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January 12, 2010Dear one, You are so ineffably beautiful. So intensely beautiful. When I sense into it, I almost can’t take it. ...
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January 10, 2010 One of the most potent forces that can close the heart is another’s apathy. We invoke apathy in response to...
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January 7, 2010Who do we turn to in times of need? Reflections on loss return me, somehow, to a state of bliss.
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January 4, 2010How do we continue to love those from whom we are estranged? Should we remain open to those who move...
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January 2, 2010At the center of the earth is an iron core. The inner core is solid yet hotter than the surface...
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.