The madness has to happen
For years I’ve subscribed to The Washington Post and The Guardian. Since the pseudo-impeachment proceedings, I find I can no longer stomach reading about the daily erosional attacks on women’s rights, voting rights, civil rights, the elderly, Medicare, Social...
Desire, relax, trust
I was a guest on the Jeff Faldalen Show today—and a rollickingly fun yet intense “give and take” on spirituality, consciousness, “the path,” enlightenment and evolution it was. (To watch the show check the link at the end.) Nearing the end of the show, Jeff asked me,...
What’s the Point?
Several people have written me lately asking, basically, "What's the point of living if all we're doing is acting out the ego's story?" I figured I'd post part of my answer. Here goes: Dear Janet: As best I can figure out, the point of life is to live to the fullest,...
The Limitations of Perfection
I heard it somewhere a long time ago: “Perfection is a limitation.” It struck me at the time as a bizarre thought. I mean, I’d been taught I had to be perfect. I had to get a perfect score on my tests. I had to be the perfect daughter, the perfect student, the perfect...
Transformation Game
We are often frightened of change. It’s normal. One way to get past the fear of making a big shift in your life is to make a game out of it. I recently changed up my whole career. Like yesterday. Sure, I’d been steadily incorporating more speaking gigs into my life. I...
Anger, Politics & Spiritual Bypassing
I rarely get into any sort of political debate in social media. It almost always ends in a pissing contest between opposing points of view, and who needs that? But I did post a commentary called “Why So Angry Now?” RE: the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing. And from what I...
Take Charge of the Swing
It's so easy to swing, letting our thoughts and emotions take us wherever they want. Up down, back and forth. We seem to be helpless over them. Of course, this is only true because we so completely identify with the thoughts streaming through our heads, because we so...
The Choice Is Clear
There’s nothing worse than dithering over a decision. Whether it’s which house to buy or what to wear in the morning, which paint color to go with or which lawyer to hire to save your um … bacon, choices can paralyze the best of us. The MIND wants to take over. It...
Holy Moly Maui!!!
Just booked my ticket back to Maui—a one-way ticket I might add. And nobody in the world is more shocked about it than I am. Sure, I’ve always espoused “follow your heart” as the only way to go in life. And I’m not backing down from that well-earned truth now! But...
ADVENTURE!
Life is first and foremost an adventure. Even the word’s ancient Latin roots reveal the excitement it portends: Advenire—"to come into” … Come into what? That’s the question! What have we come into here on Planet Earth? We think we know. Never mind (as Alice...