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I cannot tell you how many times this subject comes up in the women’s collective.  It’s actually quite painful to recognize how well programmed we are to compete with one another.  And it is really liberating to realize that we are all culturally programmed to compete. Talking about this with other women normalizes a potentially painful behavior and allows us to work with it.  This programming is not natural.  It is our natural tendency, as women, to collaborate.   We are lif

A woman in the collective recently shared that she literally was sent home from work to take time to grieve.  What a great boss! And what an unfortunately rare situation… It was coming to the anniversary of her mother’s death, and the woman was feeling the season of grief, and at the same time was carrying on, doing her daily tasks to keep her head above water. Inside, she was hurting, feeling her mom’s absence, even though she had died years ago.  Her boss had also suffered

My daughter just got her first period (or you can feel it’s coming)...what to do? Congratulations! This is a moment of celebration to recognize and honor the girl, and her rising  fertility.  And…it's daunting! Your little girl is growing, and it can be really scary to think about what she needs from you in this next phase of life.  It can literally take your breath away to think about her navigating our complex world.  There is so much to say about this topic and there is no

Do you recognize this feeling, that you are giving with all of your heart to someone who seems to need your support, and they just don’t appreciate you! This happens in families, partnerships, friendships, work contexts…and often it can feel like you are not seen or recognized.  This happens to SO MANY PEOPLE. Relationships breathe, and there are moments when one is giving more because the other needs to receive. Dynamism in relationships is healthy, and when you are sometime

After a workshop a few weeks ago, a young woman opened up to me about her struggle to focus her attention, to organize and prioritize tasks.  “I must have ADHD, even though no one ever diagnosed me.” She cried as she talked about all of the things she wished she could accomplish, and the ways she feels like a failure for not having done them.  As she shared, my heart broke.  Her words were full of self judgement, a narrative of not being enough or making the best use of her t

One woman in our collective recently shared with me that she is feeling sexually shut down these days, not interested in her partner touching her, and that this is creating tension in their relationship.   As we continued to talk, she and I both understood that she’s feeling tons of tension in her body for a variety of reasons and that she just doesn’t feel safe enough or relaxed enough to be intimate with her partner. She explained that these feelings have nothing to do with

I am. I am sure it has to do with the fact that it is the peak of summer and over 40 degrees here every day… and it is also connected to my pace of life, how many things I want to accomplish in any given day and how intensively I expect myself to be in action on an ongoing basis.  What happened to the value of rest?  There is so much to be said about the culture that demands from you to be in action all the time, to constantly produce, create, grow.  Yet we know that it is si

How can you stay aware of the sacred in your day to day?  I cannot tell you how many people have reached out to me  asking for help  to think about how to integrate an awareness of the sacred into their daily life.  So often you can have a really powerful experience in a ceremony or a workshop  or a simple moment with your beloveds and then when you return to the routine of daily life that moment feels like it is gone.  Of course, it is really easy to respond by saying that e

A young woman recently shared with me that she is really struggling with commitment. She has expressed fears that saying “yes” to anything—projects, relationships, responsibilities—limits her. When I asked her what she is afraid of, why she chooses to decide about things at the last moment, her instinctive response was that she appreciates her freedom. Immediately, my inner voice whispered to me, that’s not freedom, that’s isolation. We live in a culture filled with endless

If you are anything like me you can feel the tensions that are so alive in these times you can feel how profoundly the challenges in...

For as long as humans have walked the earth we have made offerings for so many reasons to ask for protection to give thanks to honor...

As a young adult, I remember saying often,  I am looking for inspiration.    Something felt flat to me, though I did not have the words...

What does it mean to actually accept yourself with love?  Two months ago, I celebrated my birthday by making a small ceremony for myself,...

My mother was a master of gift giving.   Before big family celebrations, she delighted in going to the nearby educational toy store to...

The world is changing so fast. How are you feeling in the face of such rapid movement? Are you finding a good balance between rest and...

How does it feel to you to stand at the crossroads of a decision?  At some point in my life I realized that there is a distinct...

There is something about these times of fragmentation and separation of polarization and distance that leaves me feeling very alone. ...

Living in this part of the world which some call Palestine some call Israel and many call home has never been easy.  Now, more than ever, I can see how easy it is to hold on so tight to what we think is true to the stories that have defined us for generations instead of lifting our eyes to the horizon to see a future that could actually possibly be bright.  Living in the shadow of war — and walking the path of peace.  What does it mean to collaborate with someone with whom I

Sometimes I wake up in the morning  and my body feels heavy perhaps a bit stuck and I notice my thoughts can be the same heavy and...

Living with grief is a full time job.  It’s not a thing to get over grief — there is not a day that goes by when I don’t think about my...