I’ve been trying to get my heart to open. It’s like trying to get a walnut out of a shell that is slammed shut.

Our bodyminds want to keep us safe. Our bodyminds also want us to relax. Deepak Chopra makes zillions of dollars off this paradox. We are babies in a world that tells us we are about to die, and in reaction we keep scratching our own itches with lit matches. 

When an animal has a wound, it goes off by itself so it can feel safe. The dictionary definition of licking your wounds reads “If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.”

Dear Universe, there are so many people in the world who would like to feel better heard, better loved. There are so many people who carry a story like a jagged rock inside their guts or heart, a weight they feel unable to push into the light. Children who lost their mothers or families often have even more jagged stories inside of them, and these stories hum or talk or shout inside the body and cause all sorts of mayhem. How can you focus on 2+2=4 when you have an untold story in your heart? 

Write or Die classes are 6 exercises you do with me by phone, Skype, or in person, singularly or in groups of up to 10 people.

What is love anyway? 

Learn to tolerate the endless opening to love. It’s not too late to go back and start again.

This is going to be short because I want to read and go to bed, but I also want to get this out to you as soon as possible so you can be as amazed as I am.

What if when a baby is born and separated from its mother and the moment of contact does not happen, the baby’s body grabs onto itself?

Go apeshit on this life just because you can.

 It’s a strange experience to have someone sing in a way that makes you believe in Jesus, in God, in all that is holy and possible and to look at her eyes and to feel like the person who is creating all this magic is…is…either in another room or very tired or something I can’t even imagine.

I love windows because they let me see both in and out. I love transparency for the same reason.