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Episode 76 Food What Matters

  When my sister and I were kids, my mom did not allow us to eat sugar unless it was a birthday, Halloween, or we were traveling away somewhere. She was a nurse and was quite controlled and intentional about what we ate, so as a family we very rarely ate out....

Episode 75 The World Of Sleep & Dreams

I used to have really vivid dreams when I was a kid. One recurring dream I had often was I knew that I could fly, but I was never sure if I’d be able to in the particular dream I was in at the time, and if so, how far up and how quickly. Sometimes I’d zoom around and...

Episode 74 Best Practices For Integration & Acceleration

My dad was always the type of guy who wanted to get things done as quickly and effectively as possible. Even when I was a little kid, he was always reading things like speed reading, or the 7 habits of the most effective people. He was an “all in” kind of guy. When he...

Episode 73 When Less Is More

I was extremely fortunate when growing up. My parents considered travel to be a fundamental part of my sister’s and my education. My father wanted us to experience the places where the great ancient civilizations had been, that he had never had the opportunity to...

Episode 72 Do You Need A Guru?

I’ve been fascinated by spirit and have always been intensely curious about how the unseen works for over 25 years, so inevitably I’ve crossed paths with gurus, Asian masters, shamans, adepts and teachers. I’ve been extremely lucky. At least three times (that I’m...

Episode 71 Are We Free?

When I was about eight years old, my parents brought my sister and me to Southeast Asia, so we could get a sense of where my father was from and for us to get to know the large extended family we had not yet met. On the way to Malaysia, where my father grew up in what...

Episode 70 Up Close & Personal

I’ve always been curious about how people who have honed a certain skill for a long time got to where they are now. That’s why I used to watch documentaries like Jiro Loves Sushi or the Kings of Pastry or Sky Ladder where you get a small taste of how someone who is...

Episode 69 So, What’s The Story?

When I was a little kid, I loved to sing. Not to perform — just singing for the sake of singing. I’d sing to myself all the time. When I became a teenager I’d rock out and sing along with my clock-radio to all the top 40 songs. My mom and I would sing along to all her...

Episode 68 Why Beginner’s Mind Is Your Ally

Have you noticed that little kids can be fascinated by the smallest things? Ants moving to and fro, how jumping in puddles creates this extremely satisfying splash, how sand sticks together when it’s wet and can be molded into all kinds of shapes, how making a...

Episode 67 Emotions − Agents Of Change

Before I started on my spiritual journey, my primary emotion was fear. Well, sometimes, it would be worry, or anxiety, which didn’t really feel like that much of a step up. Mostly though, it was fear. The biggest one was fear that I wouldn’t have enough. I spent a lot...

Episode 66 The Illusion

I have always been fascinated by magicians. My sister and I weren’t really allowed to watch TV very much when we were growing up but if there was a magician on, or a magic special, my parents would let us watch it. And whenever we were out at different music festivals...

Episode 65 The Mechanics Of Spirit Part 2

When I was growing up, I read a LOT. I even tried to convince my sister that “library” was an awesome game. This was a “game” I invented, where whoever could sit and read for the longest, without talking to the other, won. Turns out she was too...

Episode 64 The Mechanics Of Spirit Part 1

There are some people who just like to tinker. Some people tinker with cars, others with food, or ideas. There is a pleasure to taking things apart, and putting them back together in a way that seems better to the tinkerer. I’ve always been fascinated by mystery, by...

Episode 63 Seeking Mastery

When I was about nine or ten, I was walking with my dad and he shared something with me that has stayed with me since. He said to me “Karen, regret is a terrible thing. You don’t understand this now because you are so young but if you have regret it will keep you...

Episode 62 Spirit Level Street Smarts

When I was about eight, my mom decided it would be smart if my sister and I took self defense classes. So she enrolled us in judo, because she was told the focus of the discipline was defensive. I would have preferred karate which seemed like a lot more fun, but the...

Episode 61: Declutter From A Higher Order

Chris and I had this really pretty tea set a friend gave us when we got married. It was a beautiful, hand thrown ceramic teapot with matching cups—super cool rounded shape, made by hand, and glazed in a vibrant emerald green that transitioned into white. The challenge...

Episode 60: Expectations – The Hidden Stumbling Block

I always thought my parents were pretty awesome, and especially so as they got older.   They are (or were, in the case of my Dad who passed away a few years ago) surprisingly open.   They moved to Oakland, CA after 40+ years of living in Montreal, Canada—a big move...

Episode 59: The Power Of No

I don’t know about you, but I was taught to believe that saying “no” was rude. Even if it was softened by “thank you.”   To be polite, nice, kind or a “good girl,” I had to agree to accommodate and be helpful as much as possible. I also allowed myself to...

Episode 58: Not Giving It All Away

When I first started on my spiritual journey I was HUNGRY for knowledge. So I did what many do and started looking for teachers or people who could teach me something “important”. I wasn’t even sure exactly what that meant, but I figured I’d recognize profound when I...

Episode 57: Clearing Spaces

When I was growing up, I could always tell when there were places in a house or even outside where I did not want to be. There was a specific spot on the landing of the staircase going up to the bedrooms in the house I grew up in that I absolutely hated. Looking back...

Episode 56: Can We Get More Done By Being Still

When I was about 15, I started swimming laps with my dad in the winter.   The swimming pool was on the ground floor of a very 1970s apartment building a few blocks away from where we lived. It was a smallish pool, but it was free and it was heated—a pretty important...

Episode 55: Presence – Are You Doing It Right?

I first read about the concept of presence from Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk, in his book “The Miracle of Mindfulness.” He was writing about eating an orange with total presence (which if you know me and my love of food, you’ll...

Episode 54: How To Leverage The Efficiency Of Spirit

When I first started on my spiritual journey I really wanted someone to give me a better understanding of the big picture. Then what I wanted next was a breakdown of the steps of how to get to wherever I was supposed to be going. Boy did I have a LOT to learn! Still...

Episode 53: Synergetic Ascension

I like to paint when I have some spare time. There’s something about pushing all those beautiful colors around on the canvas, in these unexpected ways, that I find really fun. I never try to paint anything in particular. Whatever comes out just does. And when I get a...

Episode 52: Beware The Rabbit Hole

A couple of years ago, I remember clicking on a Facebook link that a friend shared with me that seemed really intriguing. I don’t exactly remember how I ended up there after I clicked on that link, but somehow about 2 hours later I found myself realizing that I was...

Episode 51: Intimacy AND Freedom In Relationship

When I was growing up my parents did EVERYTHING in their spare time together. And that doesn’t mean that they necessarily got along that well—sometimes they did and sometimes they really didn’t. From watching them, I just assumed that spending all their time together...

Episode 50: Twin Flames

When I was growing up, I was really into the Disney movie Cinderella (the old school version). The pumpkin, the dress for the ball, the tiara, the glass slipper, the singing mice, the sparkly fairy godmother. What was there NOT to like? And of course there was that...

Episode 49: Transformation & Awakening In Intimate Partnership

Man, watching your partner go through detox can be really hard. Chris and I have witnessed each other go through the fire of detox, time and time again. Sometimes it’s hard to be living with that person and not take whatever is happening personally. What’s even...

Episode 48: The General Roadmap To Ascension

When I was little I used to LOVE Easter because every Easter, my mom, ahem, the Easter Bunny would create a chocolate egg scavenger hunt. There would always be a map, with clues that would lead my sister and me from one point to the next, eventually yielding a bonanza...

Episode 47: Spiritual Acceleration – What It Means To The Body

I don’t know that much about cars. I do know however, from watching the Bourne Identity (the first one with Matt Damon) that if you maintain a car pretty well, (even if it’s an aged Mini) it can rise to the challenge of a pretty intense car chase. Our physical bodies...

Episode 46: Brilliance Is Your Birthright

It can be so easy to fall prey to the comparison game. That mental tailspin of how we stack up against others. Then our emotions can start to spiral and we can end up feeling like we suck or that other people seem to have everything handled and we alone, somehow, have...

Episode 45: Do We Have A Purpose?

  For a long time I wondered what my purpose was. I often went to personal growth and spiritual growth seminars and retreats and they’d ask out to write our “why”. That stressed me out. Everyone else seemed to be writing these page long answers and I didn’t know...

Episode 44: Are You Ready To Feel More ALIVE?

Chris and I have been together for 25 years and married for 21 of them. That sounds long but it feels weirdly short at the same time. When we’d been dating for a couple of years, I remember a friend telling me that after year 7 (if you got that far), every...

Episode 43: Finding Sacred Places

The first time I deliberately brought myself to a sacred place was way back in 2005, close to the veeerrrrryyyy beginning of my journey. Chris and I visited Teotihuacan on a well marketed spirit journey with a well known “spiritual writer.” I didn’t want to go at the...

Episode 42: The Body War

I’ve always been athletic. When I was a little girl I loved dancing, swimming with my dad, running around in the woods outside our house, skiing, and skating. Gym was my favorite class. I never really thought about my body and how it looked until I was 10 and in fifth...

Episode 41: Hunger, Yearning & Satiation: Learning To Be Full

Yummy things are definitely a way to my heart. I have always loved to eat. Apparently when I was two, my mom left me in my crib to nap while she went out for 20 minutes for a little jog around the neighborhood. I managed to climb out of my crib. Crawl from my bedroom...

Episode 40: Are You Afraid Of Death?

Most of us in our culture are afraid of death. We’re not very well educated (if at all) on what the death process is like. It’s normally considered rude to talk about death, so it stays murky. Because it’s such a great unknown, the very idea of death can trigger...

Episode 39: Sex & Spirit

When I was about four, I asked my mom where babies came from. She was a nurse and she wasn’t going to tell me some story about a stork. I’d never been to a library, but she took me to our local public library and I took out my first book – on where babies come from. ...

Episode 38: Intimacy Re-Imagined

The first time I fell in love, I totally lost myself in him. I thought it was supposed to be that way. All the movies and the songs in popular culture tell us that we are seeking for the one who completes us, makes us whole. When that relationship ended, I was totally...

Episode 37: The Yin & The Yang

“Girls are stupid!” “Boys have cooties!” We all remember the silly things we said about each other when we were little. As we get older, although it usually becomes more subtle, the name calling often continues, even if it takes on a different guise. And it can cause...

Episode 36: The Transcendent Masculine

My first crush was Potsie on Happy Days. He was funny, a good friend, a nice guy who seemed to care about doing the right thing and l thought he was SUPER cute. These days it seems like it’s really confusing how to be a good man. The old paradigm of the masculine with...

Episode 35: The Transcendent Feminine

When I was a little girl I LOVED Linda Carter as Wonder Woman. I wasn’t actually allowed to stay up late enough to watch it every week, but on those rare occasions when I did catch a glimpse of an episode just before I went to bed I was totally mesmerized by her. I...

Episode 34: Manifesting From Spirit vs. Manifesting From The Mind

“If you had three wishes, what would they be?” My sister and I used to play this game all the time when we were growing up. I always to wanted have some form of super power. I mean, what kid doesn’t? When we played the game the answer “infinite wishes” was deemed lame...

Episode 33: Fast Track To Enlightenment

When I first started on my spiritual journey, I desperately wanted a teacher, a guide, SOMEONE to tell me what to do, where to go, how to do it, so I could get “there” faster. I wasn’t sure exactly where “there” was, but I knew it wasn’t “here”. I was so hungry for...

Episode 32: Reshaping Your Relationship With Time

Have you noticed that time is a funny thing? When I’m doing something I don’t like it seems to take FOREVER but when I’m doing something fun it goes by in a flash. And when it comes to the to do list — Oy. It often seems like there’s just not enough time to...

Episode 31: How To Expand Your Field Of Possibilities

I used to be such. a. control. freak. I very much had a clear idea of what I thought I wanted in life and I focused all my energy on achieving that. I wasn’t very open to other possibilities because I didn’t realize other possibilities could actually be BETTER than...

Episode 30: Inspired Productivity

When I was a little girl, I used to love to tell stories. Every recess, I’d run out to my favorite spot in the playground. A group of girls would form around me and I’d make up stories. Sometimes the stories were a series and sometimes they were short one-offs, but...

Episode 29: Transcendent Leadership

When I was a kid, my little sister thought I was the best thing, EVER. She always wanted to do what I was doing. She followed me around, always wanting to play games with me. Occasionally she’d hang on to my leg as I walked. I developed REALLY strong legs. We had fun...

Episode 28: Transcendent Success

When my husband and I had our real estate business, it looked like we had it all. We were top producers, helping people to buy and sell $23 million of real estate every year, we owned a home in one of the most expensive and desirable cities in the country, we took...