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March 29, 2012
How To Be In Your Body
For years, people have been accusing me of not being in my body (read about it here). I used to have no idea what that meant. I mean, of course I'm in my body, right? I have a body - and I'm alive. So by every medical and spiritual definition I could imagine, I'm in my body.
March 27, 2012
Your Perfect Relationship (And Why It's Only Real If It's Actually Happening)
You know those perfect relationships, the ones that live in your mind but don't actually exist in real life, the ones that are all about storytelling, the ones that break your heart over and over because they never live up to the fantasy relationship that lives in your head, the ones that leave you in tears?
In case you live in some grace-filled parallel universe from the rest of us and you're lucky enough to have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll give you a few examples.
March 25, 2012
A Patient Contract
As patient and doctor, you and I are entering into a partnership. As such - and with all due respect - I'd like to clarify a few things about the terms of this partnership and how I hope we can work together with the mutual goal of my whole health and healing.
March 22, 2012
The Health Benefits Of True Friendship
I recently went to the monthly Finding Meaning in Medicine group I attend with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen and a few other awesome physicians who gather together to remind each other why we are in service and who we are. Each month, we choose a topic to discuss. The topic was FRIENDSHIP.
March 20, 2012
How Epic Change Happens
In the fabulous documentary film about evolving consciousness I AM, they talk about how we are all connected, and if 51% of animals decide to switch to a new watering hole, everyone else joins in, as if some telepathic email alert has been delivered.
Owning Pink's editor Melanie Bates and I were noodling this, wondering if that's how change happens with humans too.
March 18, 2012
Are You Brave Enough To Express Your Truth?
I love the irony of life. The interconnectedness of us all. That I can be working on a thing and someone else can be thinking on a thing. Even before being prompted by my friend Chris Guillebeau's blog post There's A Letter You Need To Write, I had already written a letter this week. It was the kind of vulnerable letter you think about writing - maybe you even start it a few times and wind up crumbling it up or deleting it - but the act of actually getting the words right and then licking the stamp or hitting "Send" feels too daunting. So you put it off. You chicken out. You don't do it.
March 15, 2012
Do You Yearn To Ease Suffering Of Others?
A few week's ago my husband, daughter, and I attended a dharma talk at the Green Gulch Zen Center about training to be a bodhisattva, which can be defined as one who is on the path of enlightenment and personal liberation, but who is also committed to easing the suffering of others.
When the monk was describing the bodhisattva path, a little voice inside me piped up with "That's me!" The more I thought about it, the more I realized that, in fact, this describes almost everybody in the Owning Pink community. We are a Universe of bodhisattvas, supporting and loving each other as we seek enlightenment while dedicating our lives to easing the suffering of others.
March 14, 2012
No More Annual Paps, Ladies
Like many health-conscious women, for twenty-some years, I've hauled my naked self into the gyno's office to get my annual Pap. My cooch literally starts cringing the day I make the appointment and doesn't relax until after the whole shebang is finito.
But good news, ladies! The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is releasing new guidelines on cervical cancer screenings that will likely change all that.
March 13, 2012
How We Sabotage Ourselves
I'm SO freakin' excited. As many of you know I've been invited to rock the stage with Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Cheryl Richardson, Doreen Virtue and other teacher/authors who have inspired me at two Hay House conferences (one in San Jose this coming weekend and one in NYC in Fall 2012). Like not only do they think I belong on that stage with these people whose work I so admire; they're actually paying me to be there.
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