Permission Granted to Desire
I spent most of my life believing desire was a bad word. I thought desires had to be squashed or ignored otherwise they would lead me to “do bad things”. Thankfully I’ve grown out of that mindset. Instead what…
5 Steps to Cultivating Courage
In my private Facebook Group, The Inside Out Society, we’ve been talking this month about courage and what it means to be brave (btw, you should come hang out with us in there). Last week, I shared my perspective on…
When Truth Telling is Hard
I am currently reading Cheryl Strayed’s book Tiny Beautiful Things. It’s a collection of posts from her time as popular advice columnist Sugar. In one of the chapters she writes these words, “An ethical and evolved life entails telling the…
12 Benefits to Practicing Stillness
The idea of being in stillness is counter-cultural to our fast paced, always on the go society. Multi-tasking is the norm, long to-do lists the standard and every second of the day is scheduled with an activity that needs to…
5 Steps to Being More Confident In Who You Are
According to author and poet e.e. cummings, one of the hardest battles you will ever fight as a human being, is being yourself in a world bent on making you like everybody else. In two previous posts, I shared…