Addiction and Sobering Up

Hello from London, where we are keeping busy putting together a photo shoot, and gearing up for three workshops at the lovely Nutmeg Spa in Hemel Hempstead, beginning tomorrow (Monday) evening with a YEM: Yoga as Energy Medicine workshop at 10:00 a.m. If you are in the area, please join me. Even in the UK, …

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Addiction and Sobering Up

Hello from London, where we are keeping busy putting together a photo shoot, and gearing up for three workshops at the lovely Nutmeg Spa in Hemel Hempstead, beginning tomorrow (Monday) evening with a YEM: Yoga as Energy Medicine workshop at 10:00 a.m. If you are in the area, please join me. Even in the UK, …

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Ask Parvati 43: The Present Is The Present – Part 1: The Bounty of Boundaries

Problems May Actually Be Opportunities Dear Parvati, Someone said to me the other day that even the things about myself that I don’t like are actually gifts. How can this be true? Sometimes it’s easier to learn about ourselves by observing others. I have found watching people in my life, (at times working my way …

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Ask Parvati 43: The Present Is The Present – Part 1: The Bounty of Boundaries

Problems May Actually Be Opportunities Dear Parvati, Someone said to me the other day that even the things about myself that I don’t like are actually gifts. How can this be true? Sometimes it’s easier to learn about ourselves by observing others. I have found watching people in my life, (at times working my way …

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Ask Parvati 42: Healing Shame – Part 2: Bringing the Wounded Bits to the Light

(Continued from “Toxic Shame“) The misperception that we are fundamentally flawed, which feeds our sense of shame, does need healing, but not because we are wrong, bad, ugly, awful or damaged. The misperception needs healing simply because it is untrue. It is an illusion perpetuated by our wounded self-perception. It exists because we give it …

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