Virtual Pause

November 24, 2025 Through some recent experiences, I have realized that there is a fire inside of me that desires to express truth, creativity, passion, and sight. But there has been a blanket ofcompliance that has shoved that fire down over the years, for fear it will kick me out of situations and leave me abandoned. But what happens when you don’t let fire out? You eat it, and eventually it eats...

November 3, 2025 Yesterday was All Saints Day, or All Soul’s Day, and in Mexico, The Day of the Dead. Sometimes we forget how our ancestors have shaped us. What positive attributes have we acquired? What has been passed down to us that we may not even recognize? In today’s episode we will root ourselves into our lineage – noticing the beautiful gifts we have been given that make us who we are, and...

October 27, 2025 Today’s episode is a simple grounding practice using imagery and sound. Sometimes (like always) we just need to get out of our heads and back into our bodies and souls. We will assess where we are on the continuum of groundedness. Our reading for today is an excerpt from the poem Remember fromJoy Harjo, a Native American U.S. Poet Laureate from the Muscogee Nation. Remember, Joy H...

October 20, 2025 Sometimes we know where we are headed and can actively prepare for it. But more often than not we end up going somewhere we had no idea about, and we are being preparedwithout even noticing it. Let’s get curious about how we are being prepared, not what we are being prepared for. Today we will get grounded and curious about what we have had to let go of, to heal, a new skill we ha...

October 6, 2025 Angels don’t fly around light and easy. They have heavy wings that require strength and power to move and go where they are directed. In this episode I will share about a terrifying hike, and then we will look at where we have gone and where we may be being beckoned to go, and what is required of us to do so. Photo by Julia Kadel on Unsplash

August 25, 2025 We have been remodeling a house and it has been ripped apart and gutted. I have found that I have also felt gutted over the past few years. But what happens when we gothrough times that challenge our very being? What is that process? What do we do with it? And what is on the other side? This is what we will pause through on today’s episode. Our listening portion is from Nan Merrill...

July 28, 2025 We will have a dash on our tombstones - the time between birth and death. But what if we saw it as a plus? Where our life is about contribution? Yet the only way to do this with real impact and integrity is following that vertical line - grounding in humanity, being awake in reality, with all of its beauty and challenges, and connecting to the divine so we can be reminded who we are....

July 28, 2025 "Note from Nature Do not try to save the whole word or do anything grandiose. instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your won cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue. "A Clearing" by Martha Poslewaite Our dense...

May 19, 2025 Gratitude works. It changes our body – our physiology. Itchanges our mind - our approach and attitude. It changes our heart – from onethat is closed to one that is open. It taps into our souls and transcendsnegativity, division, and isolation. Today we will slowly walk through eachstake of our tent, giving gratitude for all parts of ourselves and gratitudefor all parts of life itself....

May 12, 2025 I am frustrated and fascinated by how my ego, my false self,is dealing with the major transitions I am facing right now in my life. I am continuingto learn, through a translation of the Psalms by Nan Merrill, through MichaelSinger, and many other spiritual and psychological teachers, that when the egois uncomfortable, it builds walls of illusion. The ego is driven strictly by fearof n...

April 14, 2025 It is tough right now to see all that is happening in our world. Many emotions come up for me that can be paralyzing – keeping me from positivelycontributing my gifts. Yet I can’t have my eyes closed and live simply byungrounded hope, because that is denial. I need to live with my eyes open tothe reality of what is happening and my heart open towards community, compassionand comfort...

April 7, 2025 I am findingit very difficult to quiet my mind these days. There is too much noise –locally, nationally, and globally. Yet I know that if I don’t find a way toquiet my mind, even for a moment, I will push myself into the world with fearand control, or hide away from it, and not be a place of refuge and safety forothers. Today we willdo a simple pause focusing on being still, allowing...

March 24, 2025 There aretimes I behave in ways I am not proud of and feel very incongruent to my soul. Thechaos of the world and the chaos into my head leaks into my thoughts andbehaviors. Coming back to stability may happen as an interior shift in us, oras an external shift in circumstances. The common theme is surrender, so we canopen up our lungs and our hearts for the breath of God, the breath...

March 3, 2025 I am findingmyself stuck and experiencing physical stress responses to triggers, with no evidencethat warrants such a reaction. Trauma that I experienced decades ago issneaking up now in surprising ways. I feel I am being invited into deeper healingthat helps release and reprogram the trauma I experienced. Today I willintroduce a new modality that helps calm the nervous system down t...

Letting of of non-essentials in life seems like a no-brainer if we see them simply as things that are unhealthy for us or are distractions. But our nonessentials can be anything, even good things, that we are entangled in and that keep us from our center. In today's episode, we will identify those nonessentials and let them go so that we can experience "supreme life" and "deepes...

February 3rd, 2025 When we hide, grasp, push, shove, dominate, escape, or demonstrate other un-grounded behaviors, we are more than likely acting out of a place of self-protection, pushing down a weakness or limitation we have that we can’t bear for the world, or ourselves, to see. This limitation can create a shadow side in us, and the work we do to cover it up and protect an image of ourselves c...

January 27, 2025 Most of us, if not all of us, are currently experiencing something in our lives that we want to change. Whether in us, our families, our communities, our nation, or our world.  We have learned that the way for things to change is to fight – to fortify whatever is weak in our lives; or we hide – shrinking back in fear and feeling overcome by despair. This is our ego at play – and p...

January 13, 2025 I noticed the other day the intense feeling that I suddenly got throughout my body when I was having a conversation with someone. That sense of flight or fight was real. My reaction to it was to protect – and that looked like judgment, anger, hiding, superiority, etc. But the situation didn’t warrant my reaction. What was really going on? When we are confronted with a situation th...

January 6, 2025 As I have reflected on last year, I realized that my intense external chaos bled into my internal state of being. I ended up being in my head, not in my body or heart. Like a whirling dervish, instead of both feet flying around through the chaos of life, we need to keep one foot solidly stable and grounded as we navigate through life. As we embark on the new year, today’s pause wil...

December 16, 2024 How often do we find ourselves in a storm of life and we think we can actually calm the chaos of the situation? We want to control the person, circumstances, or outcome, yet instead of having the power to do so, we find ourselves agitated, depleted, and critical because we simply can’t change it. In today’s episode, we will look at those situations in our lives where we are tryin...

December 4, 2024 With so much going on around this season, and my own personal transition period moving quickly into empty nesting, I am finding myself overwhelmed and anxious. I realized it is because I am focusing on my plans and goals and to dos, and those are ever-changing and often out of my control. Yet when I focus on the why – the bigger picture and purpose for my life, and the how – the w...

November 18, 2024 When we have to make an important decision, it is sometimes difficult to discern the direction to go. It may be a decision to take a job or what college to go to, or it may be how to deal with a challenging person or situation in your life. Often, we have our own agenda and may look for affirmation from God for the decision we want. But that is not seeking God’s path for our live...

November 11, 2024 My Camino de Santiago journey continues with a story about me and a lemon and an old Spanish man….and how, without realizing it, I stole from him. We steal, everyday, without knowing. We steal time, attention, etc. from ourselves and others.  What underlies this sometimes subtle behavior of ours? Scarcity? Fear? Need for attention? Today we will dig a bit and try and let go of th...

November 4, 2024 I have realized lately that for good reason I have built a wall of self-protection around my heart in a certain situation in my life. Yet my ah-ha happened last week when I realized that the feelings I have behind those walls and the reason I built them – fear, insecurity, doubt, pain – have transferred into other areas of my life. They have infested and infected relationships, op...

October 21, 2024 Are you allowing yourself to dream? Or are you, as Paulo Coelho says in the book The Pilgrimage , killing your dreams by not having enough time, by not asking enough of life, by wanting things to be comfortable? Dreaming for me has been a way for me to escape the mundane and ordinariness of life. My dreams have suffered and not been met at times as well. But without dreaming, we l...