It is hard to see the forest for the trees but most of us traverse up two mountains in our lifetime. We start to climb our first mountain when we are young, as we establish our identity and satisfy our ego. We learn how to navigate our personal journey, often through trial and error, as […]

KarmaCafe: A meeting place where those who pass through the doorway find meaning, redemption and understanding as they discover their lives intersect in surprising ways and that we are all interconnected in some manner. This is not my story. Rather, this a story about all of us. Our story will be told through the lives […]

The following topic has become so convoluted in our culture that you most likely have a bias or opinion on it and will tune out. That is because the messenger(s) of this information has traditionally been from an extreme religious sect and/or culture you can not identify with. So I am going to strip away […]

*Reposting with the hope that we will yearn and desire a renewed connection with community once we don’t need to socially isolate* I was walking out of a supermarket when a homeless man pushing a shopping cart caught my attention in the far corner of my eye. He was hard to ignore, talking – yelling, […]

Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises, George Clooney famously said in the movie Up in the Air. Clooney used a backpack as a brilliant metaphor for our lives in this epic movie, concluding our relationships weigh us down far greater […]

Meditation has truly transformed my life in recent years.  But, in sharing this revelation with friends, it rapidly became apparent how misinformed Western culture is.  The most noticeable being a visceral reaction, as if I’d joined a religious cult which worships some weird God or moved to a hippy community with a fresh pair of […]

*Introverts have been practicing social distancing for years! I am an Extroverted Introvert.  Impossible, you may say, how can one claim to possess polar opposite qualities? Well, if we can be Passive Aggressive or Manic Depressive, then why can we also not be both Extroverted and Introverted? They are not mutually exclusive qualities. We are […]

In our youth obsessed culture, the transition into middle age can be bumpy and even dramatic. It conjures up images of shiny red sports cars, faces jacked up on botox and erratic behavior from otherwise stable adults. Indeed, there are many signs that signal the arrival of this phase: Empty nest, affairs, menopause, job burnout, […]

It is human nature to resist change and loss.  We prefer to keep things the same, often to our detriment.  We hold on to – even cling to – toxic relationships, bad jobs, unhealthy lifestyles.  The main driver for resistance may be fear: fear of loss, fear of the unknown, fear of losing the ability […]

We are a society that rewards motion. The message of always moving, always doing, always going somewhere whether it’s shopping, working, driving, running errands, meetings or just providing the appearance of productivity resonates deep within us as being normal. Remarkably, even when we are not running around, our Minds are still in motion, whirling with […]