All About Love

All About Love

“Awakening to love can happen only as we let go of our obsession with power and domination … cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way of ensuring obedience.” bell hooks The first place that each of us learns about love – what it feels like...
What Is Healing?

What Is Healing?

For the month of August, we’re delving into the process of change and growth that humans undergo as we embark on our inner work journey. My model of change, The Change Spiral, emerged as one of the frameworks that now underlies much of my work. The quality of...
Relationships: Both the Poison and the Cure

Relationships: Both the Poison and the Cure

Last week, I described how I’ve come to describe the process of change and growth that we humans go through as the Change Spiral underlying much of my work.The quality of spiraling can feel like a revisiting of themes and patterns in our lives as we move through the...
Mapping the Change Process

Mapping the Change Process

On this personal growth journey that we’re all on together, do you ever feel like you’re just cycling through repeating patterns?Do the same lessons seem to keep coming up for you?Does it feel like the more you change, the more you stay the same?I used to think of my...
Disarming Conversations

Disarming Conversations

I was recently listening to a woman sharing about what’s worked for her when it comes to bridging differences in her politically divided family, and I wanted to pass on a few nuggets of learning.   She leans liberal politically, but lives in a part of the country that...