Have you ever been — or are you now — in a time of your life where you felt you were in a dark night of the soul? Emotions so intense, crazy-making, and dark that you just don’t know what to do with them? And that your disorienting, lonely experience is made even worse because …
For millennia, as you may know, an Oracle was a person — or sometimes a place like a spring or tree or shrine — that was assumed to be the source of infallible guidance and spiritual authority. So that when you had a question — like what to eat (and when), when to pray (and …
As a young teenager studying dance, I would spend hours scrutinizing my reflection in the mirrors that lined the dance studio walls, using a mental knife to slice off my “extra” curves. At the height of my anorexia and at my lowest weight, I secretly rejoiced when my periods stopped. While this was a sign …
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Over 500 pages written, pored over, worried over, improved, cut in half, re-arranged, loved … and I wanted to just throw it all away. Don’t get me wrong, writing my forthcoming book, Feminine Genius: The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman, was mostly euphoric. I wrote like …
As I see it, there are actually three kinds of perfectionism. Perfectionism Type I: Cover Up Your Flaws My first career was as a professional modern dancer. When I started training in earnest when I was 13, I quickly learned the rules for “making it,” which turn out to be the same for a dancer …
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I mean, really, IS there anything that’s better than looking great? It would seem that, as women, most of our attention, time, creativity, care, obsession, and focus goes toward how we look, ideally toward looking good, great, acceptable, lovable, etc. One of the greatest areas of life that hobbles women the most is how …
I am pretty sure I will be skewered for this, but I have finally put words to something that has been churning in my gut for a long time. So here goes. I am not a scholar of a Course in Miracles, and I am commenting not on the Course itself, but on an aspect …
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