How to accept difficult circumstances

Accepting difficult circumstances can relieve emotional suffering. “Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans—I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great…keep reading…

How to develop resilience

Have you wondered how to develop resilience?   The road to resilience is paved with emotional suffering but it’s how you choose to view it that counts.  One year after I was in the near-fatal car wreck, we drove our Airstream on a road trip from Portland, Oregon down to San Diego to visit my…keep reading…

Facing Fear is a Victory for Your Soul

Face your Fear – live a bigger life. “Rule of thumb: the more important the call or action is to our own soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.” Steven Pressfield My heart was pounding, my mouth and throat were dry and adrenaline was pumping throughout my body.  We were saying goodbye…keep reading…

Are you afraid of success?

I’ve noticed a subtle pattern in some of the women I work with — the fear of success. I’ve learned to ask my clients and the women in Profit from Your Passion, what the negative associations are with getting what they want. Here’s some of the answers I’m hearing: I’ll have to put in more hours for the…keep reading…

Working with Fear is a Journey of Courage

The cave you most fear entering, has your gold.  ~Joseph Campbell Tony Robbins says that 80 percent of success is due to psychology—mindset, beliefs, and emotions—and only 20 percent is due to strategy—the specific steps needed to accomplish a result. I believe this is true. Most of the heavy lifting I do with my life…keep reading…

When Did You Start Hiding?

I started hiding when I was five years old and in my first school play. My part was a good one – a lady in waiting stationed right next to the Queen’s throne.  Before the play opened, each of us was introduced one by one in front of the velvet curtains. So there I was,…keep reading…