Category Archives: Life

Creating Your Outer Heart

This blog is written by guest blogger, Tara Mohr, writer, personal growth teacher and coach.
I appreciate the term self-care, I really do. I understand the need for some word in our language that means something along these lines.
But that phrase, self-care, has always turned me off. It reminds me of college, where all counseling [...]

I must be a masochist. Or, why I love my work.

Let’s reflect, shall we?
A while back I hosted my first Salon in over 6 years- the first Salon ever for Restoring Power. The topic was community and partnership. I opened, as I usually do, with about five to ten minutes of my recent and personal reflections on the topic then I put out a [...]

Love as a Choice

By Guest blogger, Dayna Reader
I grew up watching the kind of movies in which couples met, fell in love and lived happily ever after. Love was portrayed as this big, magical feeling; it was out there waiting, you just had to find it and snap it up, and life would be great. I don’t remember [...]

Dr. Laura, being nice, and things that seem hard

In our efforts to be nice we buy into the Universal Agreement that “it’s-hard” is in fact a good, solid reason for not taking the action we think/know/feel is right to be taking.