Caroline Phipps

Leveraging Love - Series June, 18 2014 Love Power This is the 1st part of my exploration of the Aspiration of Leveraging Love; Love Power Of all of the Elegant Aspirations at our disposal Leveraging Love is probably the most powerful. Much of the circumstance of our lives depends upon where we choose to give Love, where we search for Love and when we withhold Love. At the present time in our evolu...

Leveraging Love - Series June, 20 2014 Romantic Love Whether our Romantic relationships are rooted in Rapture or grow out of friendship, there is only one truly effective way to create a union that supports a healthy life. For those of us privileged enough to have experienced “falling in love”, its quite simply the best feeling in the world. The vocabulary people use to describe this indescribable...

Leveraging Love - Series July, 11 2014 Shadow Love We can Leverage our Love in many ways and some of those ways have a seamy, shadowy under-side. Wherever Love manifests The Shadow follows: Romantic relationships can descend into entanglements when partners become threatened by the growth and development of their loved one, fearing it will lead to abandonment. Parents’ Love for their offspring can...

Leveraging Love - Series August, 20 2014 True Love Having explored the many ways we Leverage our Love from Love Power to Romantic Love and Shadow Love, we now get to the most elusive type of Love of them all, True Love. Over the last few months I have come to believe it is impossible to fully explain Love. Continually difficult to grasp and impossible to rationalize, we can explore it and tussle w...

Elegant Aspirations December, 16 2014 3 Steps For An Elegant Season By Caroline Phipps If the December avalanche of obligations, commitments, shopping, events and parties is threatening to bury you, here are three strategies to utilize from the Living with Inner Elegance tool kit that can help. Read More

Elegant Aspirations April, 20 2014 Forgiveness By Caroline Phipps The quality of our relationships can be seen as a litmus test of our own attitudes and behavior. For most of us, the dream of wreaking revenge on those we believe have hurt us usually remains exactly that, a dream. Our ego-self constantly reinforces its identity by holding the grudge with a painful pride: “I shall never forgive you...

Beyond The Gender Agenda - Series March, 14 2015 Many Shades Of Us Exploring Contradictions and Anomalies In Today's Relationships This Article delves into the inconsistencies and confusion that result from the interchangeable roles that men and women play in today's world, using the popular culture phenomenon, Fifty Shades of Grey as an example of the mixed messaging. Read More