Why does it feel like the world around us is getting worse? Politically, economically, environmentally, socially, so much is shifting and changing. What if the crumbling of these systems simply reflects the old breaking down while the new is emerging…

What is it that has us not want to go back to our old experience of ‘the office’? Executives and other professionals around the world are unwilling to go back to their pre-2020 work experience as a result of the pandemic‘…’

Did it really have to take a pandemic to allow us to all slow down a bit? With long lines at grocery stores and warnings not to come together in groups, our expectations for speed and efficiency have dropped to an all-time low ‘…’

What is it that has us need to ‘know’ what is going to happen before it even happens? We used to love the experience of not knowing as children – we loved being surprised! Each breath was filled with magic and wonder as we interacted with the world around us’…’

This wonderful advice for our skin strikes me as such a metaphor for our inner life. As a young woman growing up in California, I was constantly in the sun. I learned that my skin needs to breathe, and my job is to assist it’…’

What has us jump to conclusions about WHY something is happening? So many of us make assumptions when we don’t ‘know’ all of the information or the perspectives of those involved in a situation‘…’

What is it that has us feel responsible for another’s well-being and success? You know – that feeling we get when another is unhappy or dissatisfied…When we feel compelled to jump in to make it better for them‘…’

How did we lose the true meaning of Responsibility? Webster’s meaning is ‘something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.’ This is based on an outdated model of polarized right and wrong‘…’

Why is it that so many of us are uncomfortable feeling our emotions? We distract ourselves, focus our energy on other people’s business, or numb ourselves with food, substances, work or television to stay out of feeling what is going on inside of us…

Why do we keep repeating the past over and over in our lives? Most of us made some hard and fast decisions about ourselves and the world in our early lives based on our unique personal experiences. Now, as adults, we continue to project those past decisions into our current reality and into our future expectations based on the meaning we gave them a long time ago…

What is the secret formula for manifesting what we want? Do we need a golden goose, white magic, or more fervent prayers? I have worked with this both consciously and unconsciously since I was a child and I recently heard it boiled down to this most elegant formula ‘…’

Why do we feel we need to justify ourselves to others including what we want, what we say, and how we do things? Why are we somehow required to offer an explanation to others in order to do what is best for us. . .