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Being Understood Isn’t the Goal: Walking Your Spiritual Path with Integrity

Welcome, dear friend and fellow traveler on the spiritual path. If you’re here, I imagine you’ve had moments—maybe even long stretches of time—where your inner growth, spiritual practices, or the shifts you’ve been making in your life have felt invisible or even strange to the people closest to you. It’s a tender and sometimes lonely […]

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You’re not here to fix anyone

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The Weekly Seeker #25 *To receive this weekly column in your inbox every Friday (and get my Akashic Records Mini Course), join my email community here. Do you ever wish someone in your life was “more healed” (or more awake) than they currently are? This could apply to your partner, a friend, a sibling, one

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Healing can be messy and mysterious (it’s not linear)

The Weekly Seeker #22 *To receive this column in your inbox every Friday morning (and get access to my Akashic Records Mini Course), join my email community here. Teaching my Akashic Records Certification Program this week… … I was reminded of an important, powerful truth (that we sometimes forget): Healing is not linear. The healing

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Growing your tolerance for happiness

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The Weekly Seeker #12 To receive this column in your inbox every Friday morning, join my email community. What’s your happiness tolerance? How happy, joyful, or excited about life do you allow yourself to feel? At what level of happiness do you start to get uncomfortable, and stop yourself? We all have an inner glass

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You don’t have to bond through victimhood

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The Weekly Seeker #11 *To receive this weekly column directly in your email inbox every Friday morning (and get my Akashic Records Mini Course), join my email community. Shared misery, victimhood, and self-pity are very common forms of bonding in our culture. We sometimes find it easier, or more convenient, or less threatening to connect

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When it seems things are falling apart

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The Weekly Seeker #9 *To receive this weekly column in your inbox every Friday morning, join my email community. There can be periods in our lives – days, weeks, months, sometimes even years – where it seems things are falling apart. Where things are moving in directions we don’t like. Where no matter what we

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On not taking things personally

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The Weekly Seeker #6 *To receive this column directly in your inbox every Friday morning, join my email community. As humans, we can sometimes take things really personally. Like when someone cuts you off in traffic. Or someone fails to hold open an elevator door for you. Or someone criticizes some aspect of who you are,

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Don’t harm yourself with positive thinking

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The Weekly Seeker #5 *To receive this column directly in your inbox every Friday morning, please join my email community. You’ve likely heard the term toxic positivity. Maybe you’ve even experienced toxic positivity, or at some point engaged in it yourself. (No blame or judgment or shame; we all have.) When you’re feeling angry, sad,

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Be willing to fail

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The Weekly Seeker #4 Note: To receive this weekly column in your inbox every Friday morning, you can join my email community. Failure. Feeling like you’ve failed at something in your life can really sting. It can bring up deeply uncomfortable feelings of inadequacy, imposter syndrome, self-criticism. It can make you want to crawl into

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How Are You Relating to Your Own Emotions?

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How are you relating to your own emotions – including anger, sadness, grief, joy, happiness, and love? Growing up and through the course of your life, you might have lost touch with some of your emotions. You might have shut down your ability to feel your emotions. Maybe you were told certain emotions were unacceptable,

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Taking Your Power Back and Setting Boundaries with Family

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Being part of a family in the 3D human plane can bring up many challenges and lessons as you walk your spiritual path. Having a family – and learning how to navigate being in a family – offers many opportunities for spiritual and emotional growth. Many of us have, at one time or another, given

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Connecting with and Healing Your Inner Child

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Healing your inner child is one of the most self-compassionate, nourishing, supportive things you can do for yourself. Your inner child is essentially the youngest part of you, an internal version of who you actually were as a child. This means your inner child carries the wounds, disappointments, hurts, and feelings that you experienced during

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The Ego and the Emotional Pain-Body

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According to Eckhart Tolle, the pain-body is a “semiautonomous energy-form that lives within most human beings, an entity made up of emotion.” This emotional pain-body has its own primitive intelligence. Its primary goal is survival. The emotional pain-body is fueled, fed, and sustained by the ego. Egoic thoughts are actually the catalysts that activate the

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Being Understood Isn’t the Goal: Walking Your Spiritual Path with Integrity

You’re not here to fix anyone

Healing can be messy and mysterious (it’s not linear)

Growing your tolerance for happiness

You don’t have to bond through victimhood

When it seems things are falling apart

On not taking things personally

Don’t harm yourself with positive thinking

Be willing to fail

How Are You Relating to Your Own Emotions?

Taking Your Power Back and Setting Boundaries with Family

Connecting with and Healing Your Inner Child

The Ego and the Emotional Pain-Body

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