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Bob’s Ride, Montana Style

Bob’s Ride by Scout Wilkins During the free-wheeling years between leaving my own parents and becoming one myself, I worked for awhile at Sleeping Child Hot Springs in the Sapphire Mountains of southwestern Montana. Bob was a friend of mine who used to come up to the springs every day, to work out in the …

Don’t Be Afraid to Love Too Much

I had an epiphany this morning, after several interesting conversations spanning the last week or two. I know that the times in my life that I struggle are the times when I am afraid to connect – and I just realized that I am actually saying that I have often been afraid to love too …

Why do we Resist Offering Appreciation?

Last week I wrote you a note about appreciation, and I got a tremendous amount of grateful feedback. Thank you to everyone who wrote to me. I promised to follow up with some thoughts about why we don’t offer more appreciation. Why do we resist giving pure appreciation without some sort of suggestion for correction …

Conscious choice, conscious change

  Do you wish you could feel more vibrantly alive? You are not alone! We are entering a proactive cycle the likes of which the world has never seen. We are no longer victims of our environment, requiring the force of a bad situation to move to a higher level. We can make the conscious …

What is going on here?

I spent much of my early life feeling deeply engaged and alive. As I grew older I became more and more closed down. I felt frustrated, depressed and unable to figure out what was wrong. There was nothing in outside circumstances that would point to anything other than a great life. But I kept swirling …

Living a Joyful Connected Life

What I have learned about how to live a joyful, connected, fufilling life.   How you feel is paramount.   Making the choices that lead you to feel happy, connected and fulfilled is absolutely critical. Everything that you want in life flows from there. Here’s why:   You are not crazy, broken or wrong. You …

What is True Personal Freedom?

July 4, 2013 American Independence Day     What is True Personal freedom?     True Personal Freedom is being willing and able to show up completely as yourself, who you really are.   Which to me means: Being free of any thoughts that would have me deny who I really am, at a soul level. …