Month: March 2020

Permission to feel

Permission to feel

I don’t have too many memories from childhood, but this one is vivid. I was five years old. Nikki, our 2-year-old black German Shepherd made a harrowing scream/howl sound from the backyard. My mother rushed outside to find her collapsed on the patio. It gets a bit cloudy here, but I think the dog either died there or my mother called someone to come stay with my little brother and I while she rushed Nikki to the vet. In any case, our precious pet was suddenly and tragically gone. When my dad came home from work that afternoon, I remember […]

If the virus had a voice, what would it say?

If the virus had a voice, what would it say?

Last week, a friend sent me an article written by a channeler who says he connected with the Coronavirus. Then on Saturday, I was on a Zoom call with a local woman who channeled Source energy. What each had to say was surprisingly similar. You may not believe in this kind of stuff. It’s even stretch for me to imagine that someone connected with a virus. But their messages got me thinking. What if the Coronavirus is not our enemy? What if it is trying to explain that slowing life down is the bigger medicine our world needs right now? […]

Finding comfort in discomfort

Finding comfort in discomfort

A short time ago, I began working with the idea of being comfortable in discomfort. I’m certainly getting an opportunity to practice now! Over the past few weeks, I have run the gamut of feelings from skeptical, shocked, angry, exhausted, overwhelmed, vulnerable, heavy-hearted, isolated and fearful. But I have also felt prayerful, peaceful, joyful and hopeful. It’s possible to have two kinds of feelings at once: comfort/discomfort. Mostly I’m trying not to worry because I know it doesn’t make one bit of positive difference. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength,” said Corrie ten Boom, a […]

Surrendering to the flow

Surrendering to the flow

When I was 17, I almost drowned. I was swimming with my family at a California beach and got caught in a current. At first I panicked, fighting to get my head above water, thrashing “ass over elbow” as my father would say.  Then somehow a sense of calm came over me, and I began rolling in the water. I felt like those yin-yang images of dolphins with their backs curved into an upside down “u” shape, flowing in a circle. Like a mantra, I was saying to myself: “I’m drowning, I’m drowning, I’m drowning.” No worry, no struggle, just […]

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