Someone asked me this question last night. And I loved it, not just because it gave me a chance to teach, but because it is exactly the kind of question your body wants you to ask. The keyword in ankle pain is STOP. Most of us are so accustomed to being in motion that we… continue reading »
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” — Proverbs 23:7 These words are thousands of years old. And yet here we are, still sitting with the same question they raise. If change is as simple as a thought, why is it so hard? You have wanted things. You have set intentions. You… continue reading »
You Are Not Broken. Let me say that again, because I mean it. You are not broken. You do not need to be fixed. And the wound you have been carrying, the one that feels like it is running your life, is not who you are. In the world of personal healing and the New… continue reading »
Try something right now. Stand up and walk a few steps with your knees completely locked, stiff, rigid, unbending. Feel what that does to your whole body. Feel how it travels upward. How it changes the way you carry yourself, the way you land, the way you move through space. Now soften them. Just slightly…. continue reading »
Let’s talk about your back. Not just the mechanics of it, though, we will get there, but what it might actually be trying to tell you. Because if you have been living with back pain, there is a good chance your body has been sending you a message for a while now. And pain is… continue reading »
Your neck does more than hold your head up. It is a two-way bridge between your body and your mind, the place where thought becomes feeling, and feeling becomes action. Every emotion you have ever experienced, love, joy, fear, anger, grief, passes through this bridge. Every idea you have ever had about speaking up, or… continue reading »
Is Your Child Running the Show? I just spent the weekend finishing a year-long program called Family Constellations Systemic Solutions. It was one of the most profound things I have done in a long time. One of the deepest things I walked away with is this: perception is everything. I am one of thirteen children…. continue reading »
That Sticks in My Craw!! I have a gut feeling about that. I can’t stomach this anymore. That makes me sick. We say these things without thinking. But the body hears every word, and it has been trying to tell you something long before the pain showed up. Your body talks. The question is whether… continue reading »
What Are You Willing to Sell? Before you answer that, let me be clear about what I am asking. The Shadow Archetype of the Prostitute has nothing to do with selling the body for money. That is not what this is about. This archetype is about something far more personal and far more universal. It… continue reading »
What Do Your Hands Say About You? I cannot even begin to count how many loaves of bread my mother has made in her lifetime. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. As a child, I would sit at our long wooden kitchen table on the bench built into the wall, just being with her. I would watch her… continue reading »