This is a big week… it’s the one-year anniversary of the Liberated Life Project, and on Sunday it’s my 50th birthday. Truly, I cannot believe that’s the number I’m hitting! I’m guessing those of you who have passed that milestone know what I’m talking about — there’s a strange disconnect between how young my spirit […]
Sometimes I say to a poem, “I don’t have the strength To wring out another drop Of the sun.” And the poem will often respond By climbing onto a barroom table: Then lifts its skirt, winks, Causing the whole sky to Fall. —Hafiz (14th Century Persian mystic and poet) Years ago, I did something kind […]
Some movies touch us deeply and leave an imprint on our lives forever. Here is a list of movies that have touched my own life (along with some input from friends on The Liberated Life Project Facebook page). All of them are connected to themes of freedom, liberation, and transformation. So break out the popcorn […]
Our brains possess a lifelong ability to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences. This means you truly are free to be a different person than you were yesterday.
In spending intimate time with elephants and people here in Thailand this past week, the big gift I have received is remembrance. Re-membering, as in reclaiming all the parts of myself… My physical body, as I scrambled up and down my large female elephant, Praduap, and felt how deliciously sore my muscles were as we […]
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. —Martha Graham ___________________________ When you drive […]
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.” —John Cage ___________________________ Creativity is the lifeblood of liberation. Creativity is what helps us to see something that does not yet exist and then to bring it into existence; and to see what is already there but in a completely […]