On Being and Becoming
Existential Questions:
Who am I? What do I want? What is my Purpose?
I am a Baba, a proud and grateful grandmother, and I have many roles, past and current, all of which might have defined me. But I am so much more than my roles.
I am Light, I am Love.
I am a Divine Soul.
And so are you.
Being Baba and Divine are not mutually exclusive. They could complement the other if I could just quiet their internal debate: How do I spend the time I would like with my precious grandchildren and also help co-create the evolution of Compassionate Communication for healing and transformation – as I feel called to do?
Something about intention, connection, and action come as the answer. The how-to is what this site will hopefully help accomplish – with your help.
Thank you, Namaste, and xoxoxo.
‘You’ll not have escaped from yourself
Until your Light is a thousand times you’
I could not know what he meant
Before he exploded me.
– Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)
Physician, Heal Thyself or We Teach What We Need to Learn.
As a therapist, mediator, attorney, and Chopra Certified Vedic Master (meditation, yoga and perfect health teacher) , I have worked with thousands of individuals, couples and groups.
I have given workshops on “letting go and moving on” while I was in my seventh year of separation prior to my divorce (two years later).
I wrote a master’s thesis on the “Effects of Codependency Treatment on Inflammatory Bowel Disease” as I stayed in codependent relationships and suffered from chronic ulcerative colitis.
I coach others on appropriate self care as I over-schedule, over-eat, under exercise and overwhelm.
I talk my talk but don’t know how to walk it without looking over my shoulder wondering what more I “should” be doing.
Oh yes, and I always tell others NEVER to “should” on themselves.
Ego or Spirit: Which is in the Lead?
I used to think I wanted to be on Oprah, before she retired. It’s a relief not to worry about what I’d wear, what I’d say or how I would look in high definition in my 60’s.
My Ego secretly wanted to be seen, admired, recognized. Other parts of me were scared of all that. I sabotaged opportunities that arose and found ways to stay stuck.
Now as I take a small step out (or not) I wonder who is leading – my Ego or my Soul. The more I’m “shoulding”, it’s my Ego. The more I am open to and allow the flow, It is Spirit.
Which part of me will now go eat or watch tv? ….. Habit…