As a human being, as a woman, as a citizen, as a writer…as just about everything I identify with. Last week, I wrote about nothing feeling solid. I said, “It feels like we’re sinking. Slowly, as our ...

I’ve always been an achiever. If I set a goal, I would go after it with all the persistence and discipline I had. On the outside, it looked like strength. Inside, though, it often felt like running on ...

There’s something special about the weird and wonderful few weeks between Halloween and New Year’s Day. The time of too many sweet treats and cozy sweater weather and traditional recipes and Christmas ...

I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

We all desire to not just fall in love—but to be part of that “once in a lifetime” type of love story. Here’s how to differentiate between your love relationships: karmic, soulmate, or twin flame, as ...

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When I started dating a blue-eyed boy last summer I felt it only fair to warn him: “It’s all trauma, all the time with me.” He laughed. “I’m serious though,” I said. “I’m a grown-ass man,” he said, ...

Jim Carrey talks about his battle with depression. He explains just how tough suffering from depression can be, and how finding freedom from depression is tied to separating from the ego. When I think ...

I am quite familiar with the story about Buddha’s enlightenment under that fateful banyan tree in Bodh Gaya. But until recently, I was much less familiar with his wandering ways before he became ...

We can talk about spirituality or yoga or meditation or mindfulness all day, but life has a way of testing whether our understanding is superficial, or thorough. There’s a famous story about Naropa ...