Love is Your Superpower!
Love is our Superpower. Love gives us strength, providing us the power to create shining diamonds of insight from the rough and rugged coal of hard experience. Love gives us X-ray vision, offering us the ability to see beneath the hard shell of our adversaries’ hearts and see the vulnerable human being that dwells inside it. [...]
How To Be True: Remembering your divine purpose
Imagine the moments just before you were born — milliseconds before you made your grand entrance and drew your first, jagged, shocking breath of air. In those last few moments before you emerged, your soul, held tenderly in the hands of the Divine One, was about to be placed within your tiny body. The Source [...]
How To Be Compassionate: You really have nothing better to do . . .
My clock-radio is always set to wake me to the morning news. Sometimes I question the wisdom of this decision. Most of the stories that are broadcast in the morning are not especially uplifting or motivating. I often think that a tooth-rattling alarm might be more pleasant to wake to. This morning’s news was especially [...]
How to Be Courageous: Is love really a battlefield?
Back in 1983, Pat Benetar released the song “Love is a Battlefield”. Well, some three decades later, it continues to strike a chord in many people. It has been covered by singers like Cher, Carrie Underwood, Selena Gomez, Shakira, and Mary J. Blige. And if you search for the words “love is a battlefield” on [...]
How To Be Reconciled: Finding common ground
My husband and I are soul mates. We’re best friends. And from time to time, we fight. Because we’re human. And because sometimes we just feel like we’re right and the other person’s blatantly wrong and unconscionably inconsiderate. I’m sure you know the feeling. In one of our recent arguments, I found myself trying to [...]
How To Be Understanding: Comforting your consuming emotions
We all have the experience with being afflicted by the ravages of consuming emotions: Guilt. Envy. Bitterness. Worry. Despair. These are the emotions that feed on the goodness of our hearts, bit by bit taking from the heart’s abundant energy. These emotions eat away at us, but they are never satisfied. Never nourished. Whatever energy [...]
How To Be Compassionate: Use Your Imagination
I wish I knew What it’s like to be A splinter, a bee. A song, a sea. A tree, a shoe. A bird that’s new. I wish I knew What it’s like to be you. - By my daughter Tamar, at age 7 When I was a child, I experienced an awakening moment. My mother [...]
How To Be Celebratory: The release of our new video, “Sticky Notes”
I saw this video in my head long before it made it’s premier on YouTube. The actors. The expressions. The movements. I knew just how it would unfold. Just how it would be paced. I wanted to make a short film that would illustrate what it means to have a “To Be List.” And with [...]
How To Be Loving: A Mother’s Message of Love
Today is Mother’s Day. My mother passed away thirteen years ago, in September of 1996. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about eighteen months before. After surgery and treatment, she went into remission for over a year. In that time that she was in remission, I became pregnant with our first child. Her first [...]
How To Be Free: Release the stories that are holding you back from embracing what you love
When we adopted our oldest son from Kazakhstan in 2001, he was just a few months shy of his 4th birthday. He had spent all of his days since birth in the orphanage, and in those years he had never owned a thing. Not a book. Not a toy. Not even a stitch of clothing. [...]