Words from the Warren
come home to yourself
You Are the Patron You Seek
A creative friend of mine was lusting after an artist's residency she'd read about. "I can picture it!" she said. "The joy of making art ALL DAY! My creative inner child being given FREE RANGE to PLAY!" The rub? With a closer look at the application, she learned she...
More Than Your Own Power
To change your life takes more than YOU. By "you" here, I mean Little You. Little you is like a small boat on a vast sea, and if you're not working to understand your relationship to the bigger picture, that which is greater than you, then you're rowing upstream. But...
Understanding the Masks we Wear
If you want to live a wholehearted life, there's one question it can be helpful to think about. The question is this: What masks do you wear? What do I mean by mask? Your mask is whatever false self you might sometimes put on to help you feel safer in the world. It’s...
Deepening Your Connection to Inner Wisdom
Some years ago, I stood at a seemingly impossible crossroads. A point where I simply did not know what to do. I had woven myself into a life that did not seem to fit me, and I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it. Where could I go? What could I do? Was there...
The TRUE meaning of emotional pain
Imagine you get a phone call. You’re standing there in your pajamas, when your smartphone rings. So you pick it up. “Hi,” says a voice on the other end. It’s a voice you recognize immediately, because guess what? It’s you. You are receiving a call from yourself,...