I have a secret to share with you. Out of every year, I do probably around three to four months of real "work." The rest of the time I move slowly and focus on responding to what is alive in my environment. And. I’m incredibly productive all year long.

Most of us have learned in our lives that there must be something wrong with us if we are sad. But what if there is nothing wrong? What if it’s perfectly acceptable to be sad and cry, and what if resolving this profound emotion only required a few emotional intelligence tools that most of us are missing?

When a Kurdish tour guide from Istanbul tells you you’re emotionally weak, there’s only one thing to do about it: allow your life to be totally transformed.

Why is it that we say we want to change, set goals, new year's resolutions, and read books about creating healthy habits but then don't follow through over the long term?

My mom and I had a rough go of it for the first 33 years of my life. We saw eye to eye on very little and generally didn’t understand one another. Read on to learn how we healed our relationship.

The mother of all projections is the one where you, as a powerful person, experience that everyone on the planet is here to step into their power just like you did.

I have a lot of clients and people in my network asking me to suggest books they can read to learn how to do this transformation-liberation-self-realization thing. Here’s a hint about what to do instead.

We think we know what we want, but we may actually have no idea. How do you start the journey to uncover what you truly desire, and what is yours for the taking?

Do you find yourself preoccupied with the pursuit of happiness, and continue to come up dry? Consider this tip to start feeling happier, immediately.

Body image governs us in ways we don’t always realize. Read my own personal story of recovery from decades of purging food in order to compensate for a lifetime of emotional constipation.

Growth happens outside your comfort zone. But what happens when your comfort zone is shrouded in discomfort?

My mom, more than anyone on the planet, has always known that my success relied heavily on my freedom. If she wanted to stay connected to me, she had to let me go, over and over and over.

If we've made something about ourselves wrong, either knowingly or unknowingly, and shut it down, we definitely are going to find that same thing about others wrong and try to shut it down, too.

There was this whole interlude of my life where I trauma bonded with the people around me about my belief systems around abandonment and betrayal and inadequacy and not enoughness and too muchness, and otherwise general codependent behavior.

We must replace the belief that those who aren't perfect deserve to be punished immediately with something more constructive. We've got to stop blaming people for not being good enough.

We think shadow is the opposite of light, but it's not. Without light there is no shadow.

What if I told you there was a way to be discerning but non-judgmental? What if I told you there was a way to be active without being activated?

The veil has gotten thinner. The world feels a bit brighter and more alive. We're all a little more open and available. I'm not an advocate for glossing over what's available here in this grand pause; this silence; this stillness.

Many claim to hold the secret to growth. It usually involves learning a hundred new skills. But I’m here to tell you that my biggest secret to exponential growth has involved something completely different.

There is no new normal, just like there was no old normal. Because "normal" is a construct of the mind, and a delusion. There is no such thing.