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Episode 575 – Excuses are like buttholes… everyone has one and they all stink! In this episode, I am going to give you some tough love and teach you how to get past your excuses!

Part 1 – Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17) – Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to o…

Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 2 (2019-04-10) – It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental …

If you show compassion toward someone who then takes advantage of that compassion, do you back off on being kind, helpful, and accommodating? Or do you try even harder by showing them even more compassion in hopes they will finally “see the light”? In order for compassion to work, it has to come from an […]

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Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 1 (2019-04-03) – It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental …

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2019-04-03) – This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in open presence…

The Four Remembrances (2019-03-27) – When we attune to the reality of impermanence and death, we remember what most matters to us. But in daily life we can lose precious swaths of time in a reactive trance, on our way somewhere else, and lost in proble…

Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 – This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical an…

Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 1 (2019-03-13) – This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working wit…

Episode 557 – Happiness is not really that hard to understand is it? Stop doing the things you hate doing and do more of the stuff you love doing, right? If it were that easy, everyone would be happy! It seems there is more to be said than jus…

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 (2019-03-06) – This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not b…

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 (2019-02-27) – This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not b…

The Sacred Art of Listening – Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can deepen our capacity for listen…

Spiritual Reparenting (a favorite from the archives) – When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do not feel at home with others. We are dis…

Living with Courageous Presence (2019-02-06) – The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and …

Without Anxiety About Imperfection – featuring special guest, Haemin Sunim, with Tara Brach (2019-01-23) – Internationally known Buddhist teacher and writer, Haemin Sunim, talks about his new book – Love for Imperfect Things. Then, he and Tara talk tog…

Realizing Your Deepest Intention (2019-01-16) – The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention come…

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering (2019-01-09) – This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony tha…

Meditation: Letting Go…Letting Be (2019-01-09) – This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our …