It’s surprisingly easy to look at the negative in a situation, especially when the circumstances are stressful or otherwise outside your control. Take this past weekend, for example. We were on our way home from visiting family. It was a 90+ degree day, and we had the dogs with us and a cooler full of food […]
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The Power of Choosing Love
Confession: I struggled with this post. Whether to write it. How to write it. What to write. It’s tough out there. We live in this beautiful, amazing, vibrant world, that’s sometimes full of grief, sorrow, rage, and unspeakable tragedy. And when tragedy strikes, in whatever form, sometimes it’s hard to know how to respond. Sometimes […]
7 Self-Care Hacks: An Insider’s Guide to Political Action
In honor of the People’s Climate March taking place this weekend in New York City and around the globe, I want to share some tips I’ve learned in my years of being involved with large-scale political action. (A note for those of you who don’t get involved with this type of thing, you can also […]
Calling Bullshit: Changing the Conversation Around Worldchanging
Last night I was tagged on Facebook by a friend, inviting me to join an environmentally focused activist group that is looking for volunteers. While I believe 100% in what they are doing, there was a line in that call to action that pissed me off. (Enough, in fact, that I pushed the post I […]
I Am a World Changer (and My Time Has Come)
How can we expect to create a balanced, sustainable world for ourselves and future generations if those of us who are creating change are doing so in an unsustainable, imbalanced way? Fellow change maker, Our time has come. For too long we have stood by, mired in the fight, watching as the world heaved in […]
Reflections on Giving Yourself Permission
These days, I’ve been starting off my yoga classes with a reminder to my students: every time we step on to our mats, it provides an opportunity for us to practice being okay with both where and who we are at this moment. It’s an opportunity to give ourselves permission to be okay, to take […]