With the holidays in full force, my home looks like a festive bomb went off. I’ve found that as I’m trying to stay on top of the messes that build in my creative flurries, engaging this week’s practice has been a helpful one to sneak in there. As I’m going through boxes of decorations and cards and wrapping, I’m releasing, donating, tossing what doesn’t totally jive. As I was packing for my ski trip last night, many sweaters and coats that I’ve been hanging onto because…? Gone. This is part 4 of a 5-week free practice called “Powerful Completion”. So

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Hey there, how’s your Powerful Completion practice coming along? I’ve done a funny thing while engaging this practice and that is, I started to relate to it as another thing on my to-do list! Can you relate? I do that often. What’s been helpful for me is remembering that this practice series is on behalf of my liberation. It’s to put to bed what needs to be put to bed and bring lightness for what’s next. We can also scale how deep we dive, so if you haven’t started it because times are busy, here’s a nudge…take a deep breath

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Hey, how’s the holiday season treating you? Have you had a chance to work with last week’s practice kicking off Powerful Completion? I have and I’ve got to say I’m already feeling clearer and also a little emotionally activated. You know, the hurts so good kind of looking at things? This is the thing with taking stock and reconciling what’s happened, when we turn and face some of these things it can get sticky. But on the other side is some sweet liberation. So even though this time of year can be packed with demands, I promise you that going

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Do you have a ritual or practice you engage with to complete your year and move clearly and powerfully into the next? I find the holiday season, the closure of a year and the short, dark days all colliding in the same month to be slightly overwhelming. I love a good, grounding practice to take stock, reconcile and bring some sweet closure to what’s transpired. If you’re not yet subscribed and want these practices straight in your inbox, fire us off your email just above this post. Week one is about taking stock. Watch below and get started. Practice: Start

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Do you ever find yourself looking out into your future and paying attention to what you don’t have yet? Maybe it’s what you don’t have in terms of stuff or status or maybe it’s what you don’t have within you that you feel you need. When approaching our lives and working from this place, it can be an exhausting uphill climb. Over the course of this practice series, we’ve been looking at different ways to lighten and examine our relationship to effort and the ways we needlessly work harder than required. From putting too much physical effort, to depleting ourselves,

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Make to-do list. Feel stressed and overwhelmed by to-do list. Do things on to-do list. Don’t finish to-do list because to-do list was horrendously unrealistic. Bump remaining items to tomorrow’s unrealistic to-do list. This you? I’m designing practices around this like someone who’s got this figured out, but this is totally me. Let’s try something else shall we? So far in our practice series, we’ve loosened our grip, calibrated our energy and incubated. Now let’s look at approaching the work before us in this week’s maybe I don’t need to work so hard.  Practice: At the beginning of your day,

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could be totally productive and creatively expressed without stressing yourself out and cranking? I swear to you, it’s possible. I blame our externally obsessed culture for- well for most things actually- but definitely for the collective distrust around incubation and allowing things to come together in their own mysterious ways and timeframes. I don’t like working hard. It makes me bitchy. I like working deep. I like working smart. I like working with fullness and joy and complexity and freedom. I can even deal with overwhelm. But hard? So over it. But waking up

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Hi Lovely, Do you ever find yourself in striving mode? You know those times when you’re actually digging for energy, pushing through something or crank-crank-cranking? How much does that totally suck? Lots right? I feel ya. I found myself engaging with some hilariously ironic cranking recently when working with Chantal Russell on our upcoming retreat in Costa Rica (early bird pricing ends this month, so like, get in here.) It was ironic because the whole retreat is built around sufficiency, around experiencing and opening to what’s readily accessible within us and moving, expressing and working from this place. No cranking

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Change is afoot. My new site is coming at the end of this month and you know what? I’m not stressed about it. This, people, is the FIRST website I’ve built where I’ve enjoyed the process. Spacious. Joyful. Creatively gratifying. Much has contributed to this, including consciously working with practice around stress, effort and productivity. Let’s explore shall we? Because what I see around right now is a world of over-worked, deeply stressed people who are exceptionally hard on themselves for not being more, better, different.  If you can relate to this, even a little, then I wrote this for

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