My daughter moved away this year. She started her life outside of our family and took off to college.

This summer I was in my first play since high school…

In “On Doing Things That Terrify You,” Sarah explores her edges by taking part in her first musical since high school. She battles her brain and old stories and comes out the other side with some gifts to share.

Are you leaky? Do you leak your energy, your time, your self out because you’ve not set up boundaries? OR…do you allow for yuck to come IN because you’ve not set up your boundaries.

What you need….

My brother died...I test saying it out loud to my friend before I have to tell my children.

One of the best things I have learned from writer and guide Leesa Renee Hall is to unearth and look at your own lineage.

It’s summer - so how much water to drink?

Recently I spent time with someone who had strong opinions about what I 'should' be wearing...

Don't we all need to be wrapped in a soft shawl, knitted with loving hands, blessed, then wrapped around our shoulders with love and prayer?

After I started practicing and studying yoga I realized what a tremendous opportunity this all was to offer myself the gift of presence. Because if I was truly present in this one, precious moment I would KNOW if I closed the garage door. Right?

Part of improving chronic stress is to start to sense and feel it. Close your eyes and start to sense and feel.

I’ll never forget the day. It is completely bright in my mind like it happened a minute ago. I woke up. It was spring. A perfect, melty March day. You could hear the snow dripping off of the building. The sun was shining in through the windows of my small apartment. There were little dusty floaties in the air of the sunbeams.

Learn the six steps to relaxation. You can use this 6 step relaxation process anytime, anywhere to reduce your stress level.

Your soma - body, mind and spirit - reacts beautifully to stress. The problem is, it doesn't hold up well when we don't come down from the stressor. It adapts for a time, but wasn't designed to handle it long-term.

There are physical effects of stress in the body that go along with fight or flight. In our multi-part series on stress during the holidays, learn first what happens to the body when stress starts.

Are you depressed? Anxious? Sitting with trauma? Living with chronic stress? Dear one - you aren't alone. And there are tools to help.

Sometimes, when I look back at the pictures from this summer, I get a little mmm... confused. I don't recognize that woman in the picture. And it's not just because I was 25 pounds lighter (I don't have a scale, so it could be more.) It's because the way she was in the world is SO different than the way I am in the world now.

Stressed? Try this 3 Breath Practice. Invite some calm throughout your day.

Do you like to do things, make things, create things - and has that creative side of you slipped away because of life, lack of time, feeling tired?? What lights you up?