15 Tips for Starting a Small Business on a Shoestring

This guest post from Aysha Griffin of “Inhabit Your Dreams” helps to debunk one of the myths that can keep us trapped in a job situation that no longer works for us. You might think that starting your own business will take lots of cash. As Aysha points out, this doesn’t have to be the […]

Elephants, Buddhas, Smiles, and Remembrance

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 […]

The Transformative Power of Travel

Travel has a way of waking us up, of heightening our awareness. When we transfer this awareness to our ‘everyday’ life, we can see old things in new ways.

26 Quotes for Living a Liberated Life

Sometimes the right words can make all the difference. For the last few years, I’ve been collecting quotes that speak to my heart and have something to teach me about the many dimensions of freedom. May they inspire you as well. On the Freedom That Comes From Self-awareness Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but […]

The Power of Words to Harm and to Heal: In the Wake of Tragedy in Arizona

Since yesterday’s terrible and tragic shootings in Arizona, I have found myself searching for some way to understand what happened and to ascertain what, if any, action might be skillful at this time. Words are very powerful. It is words (and the thoughts and feelings behind them) that have created an environment of fear and […]

How to Do a Year-End Reflection+Intention Process

It’s the last week of the year, a great time to pause and look back at where you’ve come from and ahead toward where you’d like to go. Some people use this time to do assessments or evaluations of their past year and then come up with resolutions or goals. I think evaluations and goals […]

5 Keys to a Great Relationship

Guest post by Caitriona Reed I’m very happy that Caitriona has agreed to share this post with The Liberated Life Project. As a woman of transsexual experience who took a journey that involved recreating her public persona, Caitriona Reed is a great model of living a liberated life. I’ve known Caitriona since 1996, when we […]

Creativity or Reactivity: The Choice is Yours

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 […]