Bigger Love with Scott Stabile

JUST ANNOUNCED: A new workshop called Enough as You Are: Turning Self-judgment into Self-love, on Sunday December 10th. Details here . Also, a reminder that David Gandelman and I are holding our Sacred Bali retreat in May of next year. There’s a beautiful group forming for this weeklong event. Join us! Details here . Hi Friends, I’m writing the following thoughts in the second person (to you) but...

Hi Friends, I had a lot I wanted to share today so I recorded a podcast episode rather than what would have been an exceedingly long essay. This recording captures just some of my thoughts about the state of our world, and the place for love within it. The piece I read from the poet Andrea Gibson can be found here . Sending you all so much love, and my deepest prayer for peace across our planet, a...

Be sure to check out my upcoming events, including a weekend retreat at Canyon Ranch in Woodside, CA; a weeklong retreat in Spain next month (just one room left) with my buddy David Gandelman; and a weeklong retreat in Bali next May, also with David. And as a reminder, you have until August 2nd to join the launch team for my upcoming book, Enough as You Are , and will be able to read it in August,...

Hi Friends, I’ve got a fun invitation and request for you. As you likely know, if you’ve been reading these newsletters, I’ve got a new book coming out on October 17th, called Enough as You Are . The book is an expression of my belief in the potential within each of us to recognize our imperfect humanity and decide, no matter what, to accept and love ourselves still. Throughout its pages I reflect...

If you haven’t already, please consider pre-ordering my upcoming book, Enough as You Are , at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , or Indiebound . Thank you! Upcoming Events: Online Breathwork Journey TONIGHT ; Live Breathwork Journey in Southfield, Michigan on Thursday, July 20th; Online Writing Yourself workshop on Saturday, July 29th; Live Your Truth retreat in Spain from August 31st - September 6th. Hi F...

If you haven’t already, please consider pre-ordering my upcoming book, Enough as You Are , at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , or Indiebound . Thank you! Upcoming Events: Sunday Breath & Belonging on June 4th Writing Yourself workshop on Saturday, June 24th Live Your Truth retreat in Spain from August 31st - September 6th (only 4 spots left). Hi Friends, I’d like to share with you a short story I wrote a...

Hi Friends, Yesterday I was listening to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's new podcast Wiser Than Me, in which she talks with women older than her to receive some of their earned wisdom. On this particular episode, she was talking with Fran Lebowitz, a New York City icon and esteemed writer. In discussing her years-long writer’s block, Fran stated, simply, Writing is very hard. I find it very hard. I find it...

Hi Friends, Several years ago I went to a daylong event in LA with Liz Gilbert and Rob Bell. They asked us to write six different letters over the course of the day. The first, and my favorite, came from Liz, and has become a prompt I’ve used in many of my own events, including last month’s Writing Yourself workshop. I’m going to share with you the letter I wrote that day but encourage you to grab...

Upcoming Offerings (click on event title for more info): Writing Yourself Workshop — Join me for a writing workshop designed to create a deeper, more honest and loving relationship with yourself. No writing experience necessary. Expect to have many a-ha moments and beautiful connection with other open-hearted souls. Live Your Truth Retreat — Join me and my buddy and meditation master David Gandelm...

Hi Friends, I sat down to write in a Santa Fe coffee shop the other morning, upbeat and buzzing from a strong cappuccino. After eavesdropping on six enthusiastic women gathered for Bible study, and then checking out the dozen or so colorful birds chirping away in an enormous, studio-apartment-sized cage at the back of the cafe, I claimed my spot on an outdated sofa and pulled out my computer. I pu...

Hi Friends, Before we get into today’s essay, I’m so excited to announce that my good friend and brilliant meditation teacher, David Gandelman and I are holding a retreat in Spain this year from August 31st to September 6th, about forty-five minutes outside of Barcelona, near the Montserrat Mountains. It’s called Live Your Truth , and we’re going to write, meditate, practice breathwork, eat fabulo...

If you’d like to hear me read today’s newsletter, click on the audio above. Hi Friends, There was a visualization study conducted in 1996 by Dr. Blaslotto at the University of Chicago. He asked a randomly selected group of students to take a series of basketball free throws and then he tallied the percentage of made shots. For those of you who don’t know what a free throw is, check this video belo...

If you’d like to hear me read today’s writing, click on the audio link above. Join me for Imagine It , a creative visualization workshop beginning on January 2nd. After two weeks, you will have a journal filled with clear, bold visualizations, around which you can center your intentions and actions in order to align your reality more closely with your dreams. It will be the perfect way to enter in...

If you’d like to hear me read today’s writing, click on the audio link above. I just announced a new visualization workshop called Imagine It , starting on January 2nd until January 13th. I held this same workshop at the beginning of this year and it was incredibly powerful and a lot of fun. Visualization is one of the most potent tools I’ve found for making real the life you desire, and it will b...

If you’d prefer to hear me read this week’s newsletter, click on the audio above. Hi Friends, Last Friday, November 11th, was the one-year anniversary of the launch of Bigger Love , and I want to thank you for being here, whether you arrived on day one or just subscribed today. I had hoped to send something out on the actual anniversary, but, as has happened often lately, the writing wasn’t flowin...

If you’d like to hear me read today’s newsletter, click on the audio above. Be sure to check out my new workshop, How to Love Yourself (when your mind is determined not to) , taking place on Sunday, November 13th. And join me for this week’s Online Breath & Belonging on Wednesday, October 26th. My good friend Jacob Nordby and I released a new episode of our podcast Hey Jacob, Hi Scott yesterday. W...

Be sure to check out the three upcoming breathwork sessions I’ll be guiding in the next couple of weeks, including one with timing that works for Europeans and Africans too. You can find those at the end of the newsletter. Hi Friends, I’ve started writing to you many times the past couple of weeks, and in some cases, including today, have gotten far into a newsletter and ultimately lost interest i...

The picture above is of my brother Ricky in high school. A few years ago I got an email, and this picture, from a man named Bruce who played baseball with him when they were kids. In his words, I thought the world of your brother. I admired his confidence on the ball field, his talent. I admired his relaxed demeanor in the face of so much competitive pressure. He was a helluva ball player. Bruce r...

My friend C called me the other morning from the lobby of the W Hotel in Nashville, where she was having a coffee and croissant, intentionally delaying her arrival to work. She told me she had been living in a what’s the point reality for a couple days, which, as you might guess from the name, is a reality in which you look at your life, and life in general, and ask, most likely with a frustrated...

I went for a walk with my friend Wolf yesterday along the arroyo behind his property in Santa Fe. For those who don’t live in the Southwest, an arroyo is a dry creek, stream or river bed that often flows with water after a heavy rain. The monsoon season has been good to Santa Fe, and though this arroyo was dry as we walked, we saw battered, muddied plants and bushes that indicated recent rushes of...

If you prefer to listen to this newsletter, rather than read it, click on the recording above. Also, Online Breath & Belonging is back this Thursday, August 11th, and I’ll be in Detroit on August 20th and 21st for two live, in-person Breath & Belonging events. Details and links below. Hi Friends, It’s been a month since I sent out a newsletter, and what a month it’s been. In mid-July I participate...

Hi Friends, On Sunday I’ll be going camping for ten days, and my intention is to put my phone away the entire time. I’m not sure I’ve gone ten days without my cell phone since I’ve had one. I don’t think I’ve even gone two full days without it. I almost can’t imagine it, and yet I’m incredibly excited to break the tether, at least while I’m in the woods. Like most of you, I’d guess, I’m addicted t...

Hi Friends, Before we dive into today’s newsletter, I want to remind you that my Coming Home to Yourself workshop is this Saturday, June 25th, so be sure to register soon if you’re planning on joining me for an expansive, heart-opening and joyful immersion into the power of self-discovery and self-love. I hope to see you there! Details and registration HERE . The Detroit Free Press used to highlig...

If you’d like to listen to this email rather than read it, simply click on the audio above. Hi Friends, It’s Pride Month, and it makes me happy to see so many of my fellow queer folks and allies celebrating in myriad colorful ways. I suspect I can speak for many queer people when I say the pride I feel about my sexuality doesn’t come from being gay, a fact of life I played no part in creating. My...

If you’d like to listen to this email rather than read it, simply click on the audio above. Hi Friends, Today’s newsletter is going to be a collection of random thoughts. Before I dive in, I want to make you aware of a new workshop I’m offering on Saturday, June 25th, called Coming Home to Yourself . I’m calling it a self-discovery and self-love workshop. I believe deeply the path to personal and...