I’ve been carrying an enormous amount of grief in secret for months. The second week of January this year, a couple days into the Los Angeles fires, the power went out in my mother in law’s house a few blocks from us. She fell and broke her shoulder. She had other complications for which she refused treatment. By the end of January she was in hospice. She died last week, and we buried her last Thursday, the day after my webinar. She was the mother to me that my own mother never was. And if you knew her, like all … Continue reading »

I had a wonderful coaching session with an Abundance Day client. In one session my client killed her Money Monster 3 TIMES before she really got rid of it. My job is to keep the process going until the monster is really gone. Each time I’d ask, “Is it gone?” she’d find a little bit of monster left. We’d follow that trail to find a deeper level and a truer monster. Until we found the core issue and killed the real life/love/money monster lurking behind the others. And then when she met her new, “Money Honey,” he was REAL and … Continue reading »

My mom died last month.

My “relationship” with my mother is complicated.

I saved her life from a drug overdose when I was 12 years old.

She was a narcissistic addict who did some terrible things to me when I was growing up, then pretended I didn’t exist for roughly 30+ years. (This is why I don’t have a photo of us together.)
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I just want to share some gratitude.   The first half of 2023 really sucked eggs. Lots of challenges, disappointments, and grief. Loved ones getting sick and dying (yeah no, the pandemic is far from over). Lots of anxiety like I haven’t felt in many years. Even money was feeling stuck.   At the lowest point I was hit with three deaths in one week, the anniversaries of 3 more significant deaths, and my cat almost died. And I received a surprise $5K extra tax bill, and over $7K in vet bills for my cat. (He made it!)     … Continue reading »

     I had a really nice chat with my deceased dad today. Now I’m all choked up and grateful. Some context: One year ago today my father released his long suffering body. I had received a message in a dream a few weeks earlier and changed my plans in order to fly across the country and see him before leaving to lead my retreat in Bali. It was clear to me from that visit that he no longer benefited from being in a body. I told him I loved him, and it was okay for him to leave. I … Continue reading »

Every success creates an energetic ripple in the world that lifts all of us up, giving encouragement to the other members of our human family to claim successes for themselves, too. Continue reading »

Life happens. I’m writing today because I see so many people are going through dramatic life events. A lot of my friends have joined me in the “dead dad club” this year, or suffered comparable losses.

Coping skills and positive thinking are awesome and helpful, and yet I really think we need to make some space to include the reality of grief and challenge as sacred and inevitable parts of our journey.

For that reason I’m going to be transparent about my own process… Continue reading »