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January 15, 2011Last Saturday, in meditation, I merged with the heavy guilt seizing my body. Moving through the outer layers, I touched...
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January 7, 2011When my path became most tumultuous, I had the most comically bizarre dream of my life.
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May 24, 2010What power do we really have to manifest what we want?
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April 24, 2010In the course of mediation, when periods of awakening arise, is that something you can make your new identity?
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April 13, 2010The divine is always accessible. We don’t need to become perfect first in order to enter.
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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 7, 2010Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it? A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character...
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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 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 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 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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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 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 5, 2010What happens when the unshakeable peace is suddenly shaken? When we lose the sense that everything is okay?
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.