Estimated reading time: 4 minutes — I meet hundreds of women, through my work as an author and speaker, who are ready for their next level of impact, yet they sit on the edge, contemplating if they are “ready enough.” Like me, these women evaluate e

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — [Excerpted from A New Universal Dream by Steve Farrell] As part of the conscious path, it’s important for each of us to look inward and figure out what we most treasure about our own lives. You need to define pros

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes — I start most of my days with a phone call to my mom. I never take for granted that many of my friends have lost their moms, and I am grateful every day when she picks up the phone, singing her “hello.” On this par

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes — When my kids were young, I was always reminding them that they needed to put their “problems” in the proper perspective. What was I really telling them? I was saying that they needed to be more appreciative of th

— Abandonment can affect us deeply—parents’ divorce, death of close family member, neglectful caregivers, or a significant other. It can make us feel as if there is something innately wrong with us; that we’re not good enough for anyone or anything.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes — I spent most of my teens and twenties desperately seeking love, acceptance, and approval from others while paying no mind to myself. The more I worried about what everyone else thought of me, the less I mattered t

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — Sitting in the white tiled kitchen of the airy house we rented in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it struck me that I think differently from others, and that my thoughts are formed from taking in the visualization of pictur

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes — Will you meet aging with avoidance, rigidity, or resignation on a mournful protest through your remaining years? Or will you enhance the quality of your remaining lifetime, no matter how long it may be, meeting a

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes — In 1992, I set out on a mission to interview as many spiritual teachers and gurus as I possibly could. I wanted to find out what they were really like, and what wisdom they could impart to me. My 30-year quest has

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — It was during my medical residency training in New York City when I first started looking for some sort of guidebook for life. It was the 1990’s during the early days of the HIV pandemic. I was a young doctor fee

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — Do you want to feel stronger, move better, and live a longer, healthier life? Look no further than functional fitness! I’m an experienced fitness expert who has helped countless people improve their daily lives t

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — The most extraordinary experiences are not necessarily orchestrated as such. Sometimes the Universe intervenes to transform a typical event into a transcendent one and we are left looking back, thinking Wow — I’m

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — I’ve heard it so many times: “good parents put their children first.” And, if you had asked me ten or fifteen years ago, I would have said I absolutely agree. But here’s the thing. Since becoming a mother, I’ve le

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — Anxiety can present itself in many places in our lives, and the workplace is no exception. 83% of US workers suffer from work-related stress, with 25% saying their job is thenumber one stressor in their lives. Ab

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes — In February last year, US investment company, Kennedy Wilson, bought a commercial building in Edinburgh, Scotland, outbidding myriad investors because of the building’s current and potential green credentials. The

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes — Gravity and love are two aspects of a single reality. They are the organizing principles of our precious planet and our amazing universe. Gravity holds dominion over the physical, our outer world. Love holds domin

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — I was going through old pictures recently and came across a photo I took in December of 2019. I had taken the photo as a “before” because I was going to start using some fancy new face cream that was sure to chang

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes — When we think of habits, things like smoking, nail biting, drinking sodas, and so forth typically come to mind. While these things do have habitual routines attached to them, there is more to consider. What is cau

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes — Despair is all around us. As I look at the world, there are more than enough reasons to lose hope. There are days when it is easy to dread the morning, considering all that is going on. I am lucky enough to have a

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes — What if you could create everything you desire in business with more ease than you ever thought possible? What if what is not currently working with your business could improve quickly, and everything that is work

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes — [A special excerpt adapted from We Are All Addicts, by Carder Stout] There has been plenty of talk of the soul in recent years—and not where you would expect it.  In his inaugural address in 2021, as he promised

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — As a board-certified diagnostic radiologist, I spend most of my time sitting in the dark, distinguishing between different shades of gray. I am an expert at reading complicated images and diagnosing diseases, but

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes — We are in the midst of a massive crisis of homelessness. There are countless numbers of refugees roaming all over the earth, homeless, destitute and in need of food, clothing and shelter. This pitiable situation h

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — We are more powerful than we think. We can make changes in our lives that will improve our health and increase our chance of happiness. But people keep telling us that we can’t. Over the past fifty years or so, a

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — We live in a world where becoming powerful is defined by individuals and social standards which tend to lie outside of our own minds. We have become a society that has surrendered our connection with our own inte

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — This past weekend was our last hurrah at the beach for this year, so with heavy hearts, we went through the tedious process of closing the house in preparation for the long cold winter. Chairs were stacked, and an