Do you feel stretched too thin? Do you feel both busy and unproductive? Do you feel like like is your time gets hijacked by other people and external demands? Do you long for a simpler life that is more aligned with your deep values? In this upcoming online book and discussion group, we will explore what it means to identify and live out the most essential version of our life…

Groups reach harmonic resonance in many different ways, and when they do, they can feel a powerful, higher vibrational frequency flowering forth…

Truly, creativity is a divine force that humanizes us. It brings a sparkle into our lives. Here’s the challenge, and how doodles can help us through…

Our world’s outer demands and dynamics are exceeding our inner resources: our beliefs, thoughts, and actions - stemming from a deep inner knowing - that ground and stabilize us. But despite the demands of our warp-speed world, you and I can access and nurture the contemplative corrective…

When we get beyond limiting beliefs and habits and the fixed mindset, we unleash a growth dynamic that changes everything. At every point in our life, there is the possibility of living into our next-best-selves. The growth mindset helps us recognize and realize this possibility…

The Enneagram uses a nine-pointed figure to portray nine basic personality styles.  Each type has a perspective and style of living that contains strengths and weaknesses…

Of course, spiritual practice often feels optional, and most people regularly opt out. We say: “It gets boring.” “There’s not enough time.” “I don’t think I’m doing it right.” But beneath our usual excuses, I’ve found two deeper common reasons, from talking with numerous clients, why our spiritual practices so easily fade…

We all have a kind of constant commentary running through our minds. Sometimes this narration is innocuous. “Glad we’re finally getting some rain - we really needed that.” “I wonder what my friend has been up to lately.” But often times the commentary in our heads is laced with judgement…

Your imagination can transform your spiritual life. So why, in conversations about spirituality, does imagination often get a bad rap? It tends to be framed as a kind of make believe or fantasy strain of the mind, a deviation from disciplined spiritual practice. In reality, imagination IS a practice and a discipline. And it’s the doorway to a profound spiritual life…

One of the hardest times to be human is when we feel shame or feel small. We work hard to avoid these moments, but for many of us they erupt too often. But when we’re able to look at human experience through the lens of our soul, it has a way of turning everything on its head…

When I was a campus pastor I inherited a ring packed with keys, like relics from earlier times and places. After some weeks in my new place, there was a closet that I had never opened. I lugged the key ring to the door and one by one I tried the keys...

How often do you fall into the “if only” trap? Here are some of the loops that play in our heads: My life would be so much better if only…

When the channel to our authenticity is open, we feel confident and creative. This is how I like to live, and I’m sure the same is true for you. Why is something we so desire such a tough nut to crack? It’s elusive because...

It’s time to come home! This is the call we received as children, outside at play. It’s time to come home! is also the call of the spiritual life…

The unique shape of the Enneagram symbol uses sacred geometry to encode four spiritual pathways. These pathways move us from overwhelmed and reactive to our true nature and the experience of Presence that is our human-spiritual home…

You are walking outside and it starts to rain. You grumble, hunch your shoulders, and start walking faster. The rain is falling harder. You are losing the battle to stay protected and dry. Now it’s pouring and you are drenched. And then a shift happens…

Lao Tzu says, This is a path of letting go, so there will be room to live. This wisdom operates from the spiritual truth that freedom comes from subtraction more than addition…

Fear and overwhelm muddy our minds and hearts. When pond water gets muddied, eventually the silt settles and the water becomes clear. Similarly, when fear and overwhelm hit, here’s a way for the thoughts to settle, and the heart and mind to become clearer…

FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) has become a buzz word, but it’s all-too-relevant for most of us. The problem is that FOMO transmutes into spinning in too many directions. Pretty soon we find our time, energy, and creativity drained. If you are subject to the FOMO syndrome, check out JOMO: the Joy Of Missing Out…

On one level our souls enter this life to do hard things. To learn from challenges. To grow capacities and awareness through them…