Where I End and You Begin

  “Yes” – it’s one simple word, but it’s a word that holds amazing power in our life.   Yes to doing the extra work…even if it leads you closer…

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If you did it once, you can do it again

  I was talking to a friend last week about how I feel like I’m always in a constant state of rebuilding my classes.   “What does that tell you?”…

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How I’m Measuring My Life

  Years ago, there was only three things I measured in my life:   1. My weight   2. How many hours I worked out at the gym/ how many…

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Why You Should Care a Little Less

  “I’m really struggling with this one class I teach,” my friend told me over lunch.   I nodded, knowing how stressful the last year has been for her in…

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Are You Stuck in the Middle?

  It’s no accident that Dante began The Inferno, his allegorical journey through Hell, “Midway upon the journey of life / I found myself within a forest dark”.   In…

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Standing in the middle of all this

  Life continually moves through contrasts – rise and fall, success and failure, loss and gain, acceptance and blame. In these moments it’s difficult, if not near-impossible, to keep a…

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Honor Your Dark

  For a while now I’ve had a vision of what it is I want – where it is I want to go in various areas of my life from…

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The Pain of New Beginnings

  On Friday I signed lease papers for my new apartment in Blue Bell, PA. I was excited to finally have a place closer to the new LifeTime Fitness in…

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Tell the Second Story

Every day, each of us wrestles with different situations that are beyond our control. From something as routine as being cut off in traffic to dealing with a screaming child’s…

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What “I’m not enough” really means

How would you define enough?   You could probably list several ideas: “I’d be good enough if…I lost X amount of weight, I actually committed deeply to my spiritual practice,…

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