“Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.”
Tara Brach
Recent Posts
What is Shadow Work® and How is it Relevant to You?
Are you drawn to the term “Shadow Work®,” but realize that you don’t really understand what it means or how it would be relevant to you?
Searching for Happiness: Lessons from Tara the Rescue Dog
I brought home a shelter dog, Tara, in early January. She has been blessing and challenging me in powerful ways since then.
Cultivating Gratitude: Receiving the Goodness of Life
Did you know that the human brain is programmed to recognize negative experiences far more than positive ones? Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, PhD writes that a positive experience needs to be held in awareness for 5-20 seconds in order to register in our emotional memory while a negative experience registers instantly.