Spirituality

How Fulfilling Are Your Relationships? Family / Friends / Goals / Personal / Spirituality / Travel

How Fulfilling Are Your Relationships?

by Mar 14, 2019 No Comments

How connected do you feel to your partner or your kids? To extended family and friends? To a community? And how fulfilling are those connections for all involved? In our modern culture, we’re often taught the value of becoming self-reliant and independent. Sometimes as we “succeed” in this, it leads to a sense of isolation. Or we may shut ourselves off from deeper emotions in order to...

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Lessons Learned Family / Friends / Personal / Spirituality

Lessons Learned

by Jul 12, 2017 No Comments

Each Sunday, I write an email to everyone who has signed up for my Weekly NOW email series. Each week is completely different…I’ve written about our transition to setting down some roots in San Miguel De Allende and purchasing a house there, I’ve written about struggles and triumphs in my business, about what worldschooling looks like for our family, and about personal matters that I...

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Love for All Spirituality

Love for All

by Nov 13, 2016 4 Comments

Much of the world received a bit of shock this week with the election results, and emotions have been high for many. I was surprised by the news myself, not quite sure how to process it or what it would mean for me and for other people. I began to practice what I often do when troubling thoughts and emotions arise: I tried to observe...

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Dreaming Awake Personal / Spirituality

Dreaming Awake

by Nov 02, 2016 11 Comments

I have a special poem to share with you all today. First, here’s some background… While attending the Life Without Instructions Conference on Staten Island this past September, I attended a writing workshop facilitated by Miro Siegel. He briefly explained the different stages of The Hero’s Journey, outlined by Joseph Campbell. Using that pattern as a guide, he set us to the task of writing. I decided to...

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Bali / Personal / Spirituality

Meditation Demystified

by May 28, 2016 2 Comments

Meditation is a simple mental focus exercise that can have powerful effects in your daily life. Personally, it’s increased my awareness of the thoughts and emotions I experience and improved my ability to choose how I respond to situations in life, rather than react unconsciously. When I’ve had a consistent practice of meditation, it’s also reduced stress and anxiety, increased my compassion for others, and...

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Bonding in Breckenridge Colorado / Family / Spirituality / Travel / United States

Bonding in Breckenridge

by Mar 18, 2016 16 Comments

We thought we’d be extra adventurous this year, and trade our typical tropical climate for a brave escapade into an extremely harsh and frozen one. Our girls have been craving snow almost ever since we left it six years ago. To appease them, we decided to venture a ski vacation with Brandon’s Mom and sister Ashley’s family, over Christmas and the New Year. Little did we...

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To all the Mormons – I’m Sorry Family / Personal / Spirituality

To all the Mormons – I’m Sorry

by Sep 20, 2015 15 Comments

It’s hard to know what to say when starting an apology. But I’m feeling a kind of tugging sorrow in my heart for the pain I’ve caused my LDS family and friends, and likely many others I’ve never met. If you feel you’ve been affected negatively by something I’ve written, said, or done over the years, then please accept my sincere apology. This post is...

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Living Your Life Purpose Education / Entrepreneurship / Personal / Productivity / Spirituality

Living Your Life Purpose

by Sep 13, 2015 14 Comments

“It’s messing people up, this social pressure to ‘find your passion’ and ‘know what it is you want to do’. It’s perfectly fine to just live your moments fully, and marvel as many small and large passions, many small and large purposes enter and leave your life. For many people there is no realization, no bliss to follow, no discovery of your life’s purpose. This...

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My Journey with Ayahuasca Personal / Spain / Spirituality / Travel

My Journey with Ayahuasca

by Jun 22, 2015 20 Comments

Over my birthday this year, while the family was in Ronda, Spain, I took a train to Madrid for a 3-day retreat where an Amazonian plant mixture called ayahuasca was used to facilitate greater self-awareness. I first heard of ayahuasca in 2012, shortly after arriving in Bali for the first time, and have been intrigued by the idea ever since. Over the years, I’ve met dozens of people...

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My Solo Trip and Silent Retreat Bali / Indonesia / Personal / Spirituality / Travel

My Solo Trip and Silent Retreat

by Mar 24, 2015 9 Comments

I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of thoughts swimming around in my head, and sometimes I get really tired of the inner noise. It’s easy for me to get caught up in preparing for the future, reliving the past, or the constant chatter of labeling and critiquing everything in my present experience. Sometimes, I wish the voice in my head would just shut up...

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