Self Acceptance

Living In Truth

May 13, 2012
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Do you feel connected to your truth? Meaning, do you feel in touch with what personally and authentically makes you tick? And if so, are you living in accordance with this deep truth? So much of the time we resist whom we intimately know ourselves to be, by burying who we are and what we [...]

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Privacy and Publicity

May 6, 2012
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Ever since my teens, and because I had such a rough and turbulent childhood, I have found great solace in the act of looking inward as both a healing mechanism from early suffering and as opportunity to develop and celebrate a rich inner life, free from baggage and my seriously messed up history. Fast forward [...]

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Living and Loving Your Life!

April 1, 2012
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How often do you feel exuberant and intensely loving of your life? Is this way of being the norm or is it a sensation you merely touch upon in particularly happy moments? I am a huge supporter of, and have in fact devoted my life’s work to inspiring others and myself to love being alive, [...]

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Feeling of Compassion

March 18, 2012
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I’ve suffered a lot in my life. From a young age, I was so busy figuring out how to survive, that looking compassionately—with love, warmth, and kindness—upon myself was simply too hard to come by. When I was introduced to Buddhism at 16, I began in my brain to grapple with healing from within, and [...]

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Welcoming Love

February 12, 2012
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I don’t know about you, but I am cursed with an incredible inner critic. This voice has been around for as long as I can remember. It feels tenured in fact, and is always lurking, ready to pounce into action the more imperfect things get, which is, um, like all the time. The bummer here [...]

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Inhabiting Our Bodies

January 1, 2012
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For many of us, trying to inhabit our bodies is like rummaging in the dusty dark with a single sub-par flashlight. We get so hooked on our outsides, and spend so much time trying to look perfect, that we cede the actual experiencing of our bodies as they are. Of course, we all feel extreme [...]

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