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We were children once.

According to my Facebook feed it’s Children’s Day today! Happy Children’s Day everybody! We were all children once, but oh how we like to forget! In honor of the children, I’m inspired to share a few nuggets of wisdom that have made my own life more wonderful. As you read through these, I ask that you reflect on:… Continue reading We were children once.

Conscious Relationship · Self-Actualization

Self-Love; Why Doesn’t It Work Even Though It Sounds Good? 

The secret to a healthy, satisfying, and supportive romantic relationship is self-love. Google self-love now. You’ll find millions of articles. Loving yourself makes you more attractive to a potential partner. Loving yourself sets the tone for how your partners treat you. Loving yourself reinforces that your lover doesn’t complete you. It all sounds great, doesn’t it? So if relating is as… Continue reading Self-Love; Why Doesn’t It Work Even Though It Sounds Good? 

Conscious Conflict Immersion · Egalitarianism

Have Women Circles Turned Into Shallow RahRah Sessions?

I would like to start by saying that one of the most beautiful movements I’ve had the privilege of being a part of, has been a resurgence of women empowering women. For the past 13 years I’ve enjoyed full and new moon circles coming together expressly to shift the climate of females trying to get… Continue reading Have Women Circles Turned Into Shallow RahRah Sessions?

Sexuality

Who You Callin’ Vanilla?! 7 Things We Can Learn From The Sexually Adventurous

Who you callin’ Vanilla? 7 Things We Can Learn From The Sexually Adventurous. In case you’re not familiar with the hip lingo used by ‘alternative’ lifestylers who practice kink, bdsm, or swinging, folks who practice a more adventurous sex life refer to others who practice a strictly hetero-normative sexuality as ‘vanilla.’ Vanillas tend to subscribe… Continue reading Who You Callin’ Vanilla?! 7 Things We Can Learn From The Sexually Adventurous

Conscious Relationship · Non-Violence

How Women Demasculinize Men Everyday In Conversation

Ladies, I’ll be the first one to admit to doing this. I catch myself all the time not listening to Rob as deeply as I could. Cutting him off when he’s talking, or speaking before he’s had a chance to fully reflect. He does a great job of letting me know when he feels cut… Continue reading How Women Demasculinize Men Everyday In Conversation

Conscious Relationship

How To Destroy Your Relationship In 5 Easy Steps

The Double Bind Rules Of The Game. Sometimes people don’t take life seriously enough. It is dangerous to treat life like a game, you could die before you’re supposed to! One of the best ways to ensure that people take life more seriously, is to create conditions in your relationship where they feel ‘damned if… Continue reading How To Destroy Your Relationship In 5 Easy Steps

Conscious Relationship

Conscious Homecoming: 5 Ways to Create Homes Children Want to Return to

Recently I had the pleasure of spending some quality time connecting with my friend’s mother; which I might add, is a really wonderful thing to do if you’re missing that motherly connection sort of thing in your life. She has four grown, beautiful children that love to be with each other, and actively seek their… Continue reading Conscious Homecoming: 5 Ways to Create Homes Children Want to Return to

Self-Actualization

Contemplate This

Don’t should all over yourself, obligation is but a whisper of loving will; Drenching oneself with the weight of ‘have to’ cheapens the gift of honor and devotion. Notice the right, wrong, good, bad, true, false, all as rolling hills and rumbling clouds echoing the acoustic snowglobe between; schismatizing oneself with righteous opinion dilutes life-affirmation… Continue reading Contemplate This

Self-Actualization

Secrets of Private Elite Boarding Schools

John Taylor Gatto was a New York public school teacher with 30 years of classroom experience. He was awarded New York City Teacher of the Year four times and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. He is a man of penetrating curiosity, formidable courage, unparalleled trust in the natural learning process and… Continue reading Secrets of Private Elite Boarding Schools