Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.