#108 – What do I need to learn?Yesterday, I bumped into the source of our current family tragedy. The circumstances left no doubt: this person is seeking retaliation—despite having caused the situation they now want revenge for.Everything seems to be...
#107 – How will letting go of resentment make you stronger?A couple days ago, when a photo of a business coach to whom I'd paid a hefty sum for promised (yet unfulfilled) results appeared on my screen, I felt something. An internal, very slight "yike...
#106 – How are physical and mental fears different (or alike)?Fear is fear.Whether it’s a saber-tooth tiger, a calculus test, or descending an icy black diamond ski slope, your body has only one goal: to keep you alive. To prepare for fight or flight...
#105 – Is Your Life a Perfectly-Written Screenplay?So many times we're frustrated with life. We don't like the cards we're dealt, and we huff and puff, wishing for a new hand.But what if the life we have is exactly the life we need?I know—it’s a hard...
#104 – What's the Ego's idea of course-correction?When we take a big leap that results in "failure," two instinctive response are likely to arise. One is to want to retreat into a corner and pull a blanket over our head for the next 100 years.The oth...
#103 – Or what did you think "unfolding" was?One day when I was 18, my father asked me to drive him to pick up his new spectacles because he wanted to show me a new route he'd discovered. "Wait 'til you see how strange this new route is," he said, am...
#102 – What did I need to see?I wrote about my deficient relationship with endings, and then yesterday happened. What did the Universe want me to see, that I wasn't seeing? That an important phase of my life was over, and that a new phase had starte...
#101 – Testing the limits of my "wisdom"On Monday morning, life threw a brutal curve ball at me. For the entire day, I've been trying to find peace.I've meditated, prayed, used all the mantras I could think of. At some point, I thought I'd never emer...
#100 – How agile are you in transitions?The last thing I remember from my life in Lisbon is crouching on the balcony, watching tanks roll down the streets while my Abuela Carola told me to stay down.The first thing I remember from my life in Madrid i...
#99 – How to quiet the Ghost of Missed Opportunity?Regret is futile: it leads nowhere and only leaves you feeling sad. But what’s the alternative? This morning, I discovered it.I was putting away the spices my son and I had used for our tofu scramble...