Finding Your Non-Negotiable Voice

Finding Your Non-Negotiable Voice

In the movie “A Christmas Story”, Ralphie the main character and narrator is sitting in the bathroom with soap in his mouth for dropping an F-bomb. He’s there gagging on the bar of soap and his mother comes in. She takes the soap out and orders him to bed. He grumbles as he’s walking away […]

Three to Free

Three to Free

I’m a die-hard believer in the fact that a daily practice of a few minutes of silence will change your life. You won’t believe the difference it makes when you choose even 5 minutes to spend observing your mind. Some people call it the monkey mind, I now call mine Babs My Border Collie Brain […]

Are You an Addicted Mystic?

Are You an Addicted Mystic?

What are you addicted to and are you ready to stop? Do you think addiction only means drugs like alcohol and cocaine? When was the last time you told yourself to stop checking your cell phone so often or to stop eating refined sugar or found yourself telling the same tale of woe in your […]

Repeat After Me

Repeat After Me

What happens when you work through your Shadow and learn to stand in the space between Dark and Light with awareness and power to choose is a predictable process that you can repeat the rest of your life. When you do, change becomes permanent. You won’t pick up an old journal this time next year […]

Your Heart is Not A Commodity

We treat our Hearts as a commodity, offering love in exchange for security, support and a way to avoid own thought created demons. We trade our Hearts to each other. I’ll give you mine if you give me yours and all will be well until our Heart becomes lonely for Its own Home and wishes […]

Letting Your Biscuits Cook

Letting Your Biscuits Cook

My Aunt Lorene made the best biscuits on the entire planet. It pains me no end that I will never have those biscuits again because no matter how she tried to train me I could never make them exactly the way she did. She threw flour, Crisco, salt, and milk or water into a bowl […]

The United States of You

The United States of You

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor E. Frankl As our beloved country finds itself more and more divided, I’m struck by how much more important it is that we […]

Let It Be

Let It Be

In my uninformed opinion the best Beatles song ever is Let It Be. Let me Be. Let them Be. Whatever or whomever “they” are. My husband showed up to me in the most impractical and side swiping manner bringing a gigantic wrecking ball to my very introverted, nerdy and pretty boring life. He was a shock to […]