Quitting can feel hard because choosing yourself can be really, really hard. In choosing to quit, relief and pain co-exist. Quitting often implies saying goodbye to dreams and possibilities that once felt aligned. And even when you make conscious, heart-based decisions to let go and course-correct, the mourning can linger for years and years.
Halloweena is gone. It hasn’t been three days yet since she left the terrestrial plane, but my little Wee, my cat, is no longer here to jump on my computer desk and keep me company as I write these lines. Grieving my cat, and this type of grief itself, is a new kind of pain. And it hurts so, so badly.
Learn to integrate JOMO, the joy of missing out, into your travels and experience rest, relaxation, and a deeper sense of connection with the world around you and yourself.
Upon selecting “flow” as my word of the year, a drowning incident just steps away from my vacation home became an extreme metaphor for what it means to be in state of flow and what happens when you resist life’s currents.
In my second excursion to the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in upstate New York, I joined the “Mary Magdalene Revealed Retreat,” led by author and feminist theologian Meggan Watterson. Part history class, part spiritual gathering, I journeyed deep into my heart to connect with divine guidance. What I heard and saw shook me up.




