Healing in a Relationship: Living Surrender #8

I recently returned home from visiting my family in Southern California, where I was warm and wearing sleeveless shirts. When my husband picked me up at the San Francisco airport, the cool breeze forced me to grab a jacket, cover myself, and try to warm up. But I couldn’t. Because on the ride home, my…

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Loving Yourself: Living Surrender #7

In surrender, we stop wanting our lives to be something other than they are and recognize more clearly the sacredness of what’s right in front of us. Right now, I am meeting myself here, with the call to enter more deeply into myself, into my life, and into Divine love. So I offer this sacred…

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Can I Trust? Living Surrender #6

The essence of surrender is trust, but it can be difficult to find at times. It requires us to yield, and let the Divine carry us, which can feel like the greatest effort. I’m watching how much fear is bubbling up for me right now as I am making a significant transition in my work…

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Allowing Life to Unfold: Living Surrender #5

This week, I wanted to share a beautiful response I received recently after I did a book reading and talk at the beautiful Santa Sabina Center. Sharing my book continues to be a journey of surrender and surrendering into the presence of others, allowing the book to live. Colette, I look forward to having  your…

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Finding Trust During Change: Living Surrender #4

This post is part of a “Living Surrender” series I am writing as a way to live into my new book, Seeking Surrender, with my readers. Surrender happens in our daily life, the one we are actually living. It’s not a spiritual ideal for saints and holy people, but rather a living and dynamic force that…

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Feeling Lighter: Living Surrender #3

Recognize the call to surrender everywhere: in your daily relationships, in how you handle your limitations, in your work challenges, in the ways you care for your family, and even in the simplest of things, like how you step into a cool swimming pool and plunge into the water. The other day, as I was…

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