Happy (first snow of the season) Halloween. I wasn’t planning on posting anything about Halloween, but when I saw this picture of me and my sister all decked out from when we were young (no store bought costumes in our house, those puppies were handmade by mom) I remembered what I do really love about this holiday. Four things in particular: Creativity Fun Play Permission It seems like as we grow up we start to need permission or a reason to have fun, to be creative, to dress up, ‘go crazy’… we play it safe because we are afraid to…

  Hello and Happy Friday! Today’s post is nice and easy – I’m taking a few days off, for no reason other than wanting a break… a little bit of quiet time away from everyday demands and I’m really realizing just how important this is. Giving ourselves permission to take a break, rest, have some fun, for no ‘reason’; to indulge in whatever strikes your whimsy just for the fun of it. So often we are so busy keeping up with all of the different responsibilities in our lives that we feel like we need to have a good ‘reason’…

This weekend we are having a workshop at my meditation school (since I’m always mentioning it, here is a link – lots of interesting new classes are starting in November!). Last night, as I was letting all the information soak in, I kept thinking about something that came up in conversation, one of the inevitabilities of starting to move and shift toward your biggest dreams… disappointing others. From the day we are born we are surrounded by all kinds of people imagining all the amazing things we can be and do with our lives. We grow up influenced (whether we…