Is your true work something that hasn’t exactly been done before? Do you want to learn skills in helping people, but don’t know which model to use – teaching, coaching, therapist, etc? Maybe none of them feel quite right? Do traditional trainings feel boring, too structured, or not adequate to prepare you

Right relationship is about balance, health, and sustainability. It’s also about service–how we help the world with the power we have. I’m talking about our personal relationship to money–not how the world economies should treat money, but how we personally can come into alignment with the spiritual

Process:  the internal work of uncovering something personally meaningful through creative output. Product: a finished, cohesive work that other people can access and find value in. Process and product are two sides of the same coin, and yet if you focus just on one or the other you lose something. If you focus just on pro

Hello my peeps, I’m teaching my first ever class on business and the spiritual goodies that make it fun. It’s called Holistic Business Basics, and I’m co-teaching it here in Portland with my friend Sarah Lambert. You can read all about it on our newly launched site (drumroll…), the Holistic Business

The biggest struggles I and many of my clients have had are around setting and navigating boundaries in business. The client that asks for extras–and you feel queasy inside as you say “Ok…I guess that wouldn’t be that big of a deal”. The person who wants to trade with you [...]

Sometimes I find I just can’t go full speed with the socializing, online or otherwise. Part of why I created my own business was so I could spend long stretches of time doing my own thing. Alone. No contact with people, not even email contact. Not even Twitter. Perhaps especially not Twitter. I really prefer a few [..

A marketing formula is a way of reaching your target market that consistently works and you can rely on to create a steady stream of new clients. Your marketing formula works hand in hand with your clearly defined niche to create a flourishing business. Your marketing formula is unique to you and your business. The problem

When you have made mistakes, or are in a desperate place, it’s easy to fall into the habit of criticizing yourself or beating yourself up. There is often a voice that says something like, “I need to beat myself up to keep myself on track. If I don’t, I might become lazy or worse and then [...]

People are attracted to truth. If you want people to follow you, stand for something. Stand for something you believe is true and good, and make your business reflect that. Write a credo, a manifesto. Why are you in business? What matters to you? And then demonstrate it. For example, let’s say you do massage. You credo m

The general idea is this: we are a conduit for Divine energy/purpose to manifest. We are channels, we are the mouthpiece, we surrender, we hand it over, and we become part of something much larger than ourselves. We are fulfilled and happy, and everything is glorious. All good. Really. But you MUST take care of your human [

The general idea is this: we are a conduit for Divine energy/purpose to manifest. We are channels, we are the mouthpiece, we surrender, we hand it over, and we become part of something much larger than ourselves. We are fulfilled and happy, and everything is glorious. All good. Really. But you MUST take care of your human [

“Prosperity consciousness” is usually associated with material abundance. But there is a subtle poverty that is deeper than the scarcity people feel around money (although they are related). And no “abundance” strategy will heal it if it isn’t dealt with first. We often live with daily emotional a

“Prosperity consciousness” is usually associated with material abundance. But there is a subtle poverty that is deeper than the scarcity people feel around money (although they are related). And no “abundance” strategy will heal it if it isn’t dealt with first. We often live with daily emo

It’s a lazy post-gorging tryptophan-sleepy kind of day. And I want to say something about “The Holidays”. Which is that you have a choice about how you do them. I know a lot of people don’t like “The Holidays”. They get depressed, or overwhelmed, or burned out, or just hate the whole thin

It’s a lazy post-gorging tryptophan-sleepy kind of day. And I want to say something about “The Holidays”. Which is that you have a choice about how you do them. I know a lot of people don’t like “The Holidays”. They get depressed, or overwhelmed, or burned out, or just hate the whole thin

All emotional suffering and stuckness is caused by closing down and contracting around pain. Pain happens, and change happens - this is the nature of life. However, suffering is an add-on that we create through our reaction to that pain and change. Healing is the process of grieving and accepting this pain and change, and

This is a common story: a skilled artist or creative decides to become a designer because there is more job security. Or a lawyer. They never really develop their creative talent and feel unfulfilled. Or the other side: a skilled artist decides to work at a cafe to have free time/brain-space to pursue art. They never [...]

Completing a major project (or job, or other major part of your life) and letting yourself move on involves: recognizing that you are “done” giving yourself permission to be “done” actually completing the thing When and why is it hard to recognize and accept when you are done? If you think you oug