With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.

Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness

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

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.