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11 Questions to Change Your Perspective
If you reframe your perspective, your entire life can change. Ask yourself these questions to make the shift today.
12 Affirmations for When the Holidays Don’t Go As Planned
Flaming turkeys, missing boxes, unplanned medical emergencies. It’s beginning to feel a lot like the holidays! Here are ways to stay calm and centered.
3 Mistakes People Make When Suffering From a Transition
Life is full of 180 degree turns. Just when we think we have things figured out, life throws us for a loop with both “good” things and “bad.”Falling in love turns our world around.…
7 Ways to Take Care and Take Action
What do we do when facing what appear to be insurmountable challenges of our time?
Anatomy of a Quantum Change
What we call a "quantum change" is a vivid, surprising, benevolent, and enduring personal transformation. Some quantum changes are insightful, an "aha!" that leaves a person breath…
Be the Change
“You must be the change you want to see in the world,” said “Mahatma” Gandhi, who led India to independence and inspired human rights movements worldwide – all by dramatically livi…
Deep Offline: The Next Wave of Community Organizing
In today’s social movements, there is typically online organizing (“Click here to do this good thing”) and there is offline organizing (“Excuse me, ma’am, would you sign this petit…
Embodying Change: How Movement Can Transform Your Life
Research now proves what these experts already knew: that if you want to change your life, the place to start isn't in your mind, but in your body.
Five Things We Cannot Change
Reinhold Niebuhr, an American Protestant theologian, composed a prayer that has become the cornerstone of the recovery movement: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I c…
Helping Graduates Transition into the Real World
As the end of the school year approaches, expectations and anxiety begin to loom in equal measure. Prior to graduation, the notion that “now life really begins” fills people with g…
How Oprah Could Keep the Weight Off
Discussing how a successful strategy works, when change doesn't come easily.
How to Campaign for Yourself: The Importance of Saving YOUR Environment
Perhaps the most challenging campaign for a spiritual activist is the one for the health and well-being of our own inner environment. It’s a gritty grassroots endeavor that …
How to Make Life Transitions Easier
Ending a chapter feels less upsetting when we have a well-rounded ending.
How to Occupy Raging Bulls: The Way of the Tao
I’m going to tell you a story.One day, there was a raging bull in the middle of the main street of a small village. None of the villagers could get past. Everyone was upset about t…
Life in and After the Pandemic: Grieving What Was and Welcoming What Will Be
“Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” —Rumi
Living Ultra-Light
Growing up in the rather conservative city of Ottawa, Canada, I never felt that I fit in, but I found a niche at fifteen when I discovered alcohol, boys, and dance clubs. My favori…
