Vulnerability isn’t pleasant. But often the very behaviors anda thought patterns we develop to cope with it make it even more so. A favorite strategy that is easy to recognize is denial and suppression. Just don’t think about it. It will not affect me or my family. I’ll just ignore it until I can’t anymore. The ...

To resist is human nature. My spiritual practice when I experience inner resistance to pause and attend to it. How does my body experience that resistance? Is it a tightness of fear and a defensiveness? Is it hot and agitated wanting to objectify the other? Are shame and guilt operating in a way that closes my heart? The ...

Back in 2001, sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson wrote a book titled The Cultural Creatives: how 50 Million People are Changing the World.  They described a new class of people working in emerging creative fields who were also socially evolving along with their creative expression.  That trend continues to grow across ...