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Once a year, a reunion of the 1995 executive committee of an international women’s community service organization meets for dinner, connection and lively conversation. This group of women is impressive; well-educated, seasoned world travelers, varied cultural...

There is a profundity in a word like stuff. It can take us on a deep dive, because it carries so much meaning. That is how I am experiencing stuff these days. Stuff resides in the external tangible world and stuff resides in the internal subtle space of the body....

"Embodying Sufficiency as a state of being transforms money confusion and fear into clarity, well-being, and generosity" The sensation of discomfort can often be mistaken as a lack of safety. Our sensory tentacles maintain sensitive high alert for signs of...

The words generativity and generative have been spontaneously coming forth in me for several months. I recall a distinct moment in which I was reviewing social media and becoming disheartened. The articles were sucking the wind out of me. I felt like lead dragging...

The truth will set you free. John, Chapter 8, Verse 32, of the most popularly read book in history, the Bible. This declaration is true for me, and my proof is how I feel in my body. My body reflects freedom, and activates my sufficiency. I wonder, how many people...

Motivation Last year I had the joy of exploring and practicing the new concepts of Somatic Finance:  the trilogy of head, heart, and belly, or the ways of the Academic, the Philanthropist, and the Capitalist, and all the practices and developmental stages that...

The long view is not about predicting or controlling. Often in financial planning there is the idea that future projections of financial flows and accumulation will dictate success or failure. It’s just a tool for the journey to enable the conversations and actions...

Straight talk is a powerful and necessary skill. First, understanding the nuance of what straight talk really is and second, practicing, and eventually, mastering. I think that most conversations are cloudy. By cloudy I mean that the communication is filled with...

At age nine I wanted to learn to knit from my mother. For an unknown reason, my mother arranged knitting lessons from a person at the local yarn store for a friend and me. I was dumbstruck and devastated. When we were introduced to the teacher, I collapsed into a...

Experiences are fuel for writing. Vacationing in the English Lakes Region proved to be great fuel! The weather, a common and universal topic of conversation, became a minor inconvenience compared to the “main events” occurring around the world. We watched with the...