Freedom Friday: A Guide to More Conscious Shopping (and Being)

Yep, I realize it’s Saturday, not Friday.  And this post is a bit different than usual. With all the buzz about shopping this weekend, I put together this short collection of one event and a few special deals that will help you do some good for yourself and for the world. As tomorrow is my birthday, I’ll be taking the rest of the week off from blogging to do some deep reflection on my life, past, present, and future. I look forward to catching up with you the week of December... Read More

Time for a Celebration — and a Gift for You!

This is a big week… it’s the one-year anniversary of the Liberated Life Project, and on Sunday it’s my 50th birthday. Truly, I cannot believe that’s the number I’m hitting! I’m guessing those of you who have passed that milestone know what I’m talking about — there’s a strange disconnect between how young my spirit feels and the number of years that have passed on the calendar. As I’ve gotten to know other people in... Read More

Freedom Friday: 11/18 Resource List

Resources to support true freedom in your life… Spirit • What is Your Deepest Aspiration? 100000aspirations.org is a project of Karmê Chöling, a retreat center in Northern Vermont offering contemplative practices and disciplines to promote peace, wisdom and compassion in the world.  Visit the website to share your deepest intention in the world in order to radiate them out into the world. You’ll be in good company – Pema Chodron, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Joanna... Read More

The World is Falling Apart and 5 Reasons Why That’s a Good Thing

Photo by McKay Savage/Flickr Creative Commons (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/) Consider what would happen if security were not the point of our existence. That we find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us. ~Eve Ensler __________________ Sometimes I feel like I live in an alternate reality. My own world feels fairly happy and insulated, but then I realize I don’t live in mainstream... Read More

Time to Do Some Good! November Love Drop

[If you're reading this as an email and can't see the video, be sure to view the web version of this post here.] Engaging in random acts of kindness is one of the keys to liberation. That’s why the Liberated Life Project is a partner with Love Drop, a fantastic effort to help one family or individual in need each month. It’s an easy way to make a big difference in someone’s life. This month, the Love Drop team is trying to round up the love for a mother who... Read More

How to Live Life

I believe that discipline is something that creates the conditions for liberation… that’s one of those paradoxical truths that seem to populate life. My discipline has been to hold myself accountable for having a writing practice and sharing the fruits of that practice with you here on this blog every Tuesday. I missed last week. I was flying home from Boston that day, after spending four days there doing some research on the “Protest Chaplains” and spending... Read More