How to Stop Worrying about Someone You Love
Have you ever worried about someone you love? It sounds like a ridiculous question because we all do it! It’s such a familiar feeling. We don’t want negative experiences for anyone we care about, but the constrictive sense of stress from worrying...
How to Be Free
The best way to be free… A close friend confided “why wait” got into her head a year ago. It was something I’d been telling her all these years, and a dear friend of hers was diagnosed with cancer. My friend had...
The Way We Are Connected..an Italian Experience
Do you ever hear this idea that the way we are connected is a part of ONE divine mysterious thread? At first I tried to grasp what it meant literally. It helped me to know that we are made up of energy categorized in 4 broad categories...
The Foundation of Love
I wrote an article a while back called “The Foundation of Love” – Releasing Judgments and Expectations for Tinybuddha.com when I first learned the destructive impact of judgment in our personal relationships. I still hear...
Are You Loving “For Better or For Worse”?
These words may sound familiar as part of a traditional marriage vow to proclaim your commitment to the one you plan to love forever. It was also the name of a popular Canadian cartoon I read growing up by Lynn Johnston chronicling a family who...
The Secret to Facing Disappointment in a Healthy Way
The Right Way to Facing Disappointment Once you recognize your ego’s fears from my last post: What’s Underneath Your Disappointment, you may be wondering – how do you not feel internal stress, or pain when facing disappointment...
The Secret to Loving Without Conditions
The other week I was having a conversation with a dear friend I haven’t spoken to in years. She confided that she felt guilty sometimes after reading my blog believing she wasn’t loving without conditions, and thought of herself as a...
How to Live from Love Not Fear (Ego)
Living from love not fear requires self-management of our ego’s ‘inner critic‘ that finds fault, and your ‘inner judge‘ that condemns. Making ourselves, and others wrong fills our world with drama, gossip, and...
De-Mystifying Unconditional Love – Part 2
Are you willing to show unconditional love and allow for what’s REAL to show up in your relationships, which frankly can get messy? There’s no hiding, avoiding, pretending, sweeping under the rug until the next time. [typography...
De-mystifying Unconditional Love: Part 1
Do you believe in unconditional love? There seems to be a widespread acceptance that love in our relationships will inevitably become “I need to say and do ______ to meet someone’s expectations, not irritate, sadden, hurt, disappoint...