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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 …

Being Generous with Appreciation.

We’re about to enter the time of year when people start going a little crazy, going into debt in order to appear more generous with friends and loved ones at the holidays. Yes, it’s craziness. But a very prevalent craziness. I’ve been thinking a lot about generosity lately, because I hear from people who are …

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 …

How I came to find my purpose

Ten years ago I felt flat, depressed and frustrated. I knew there was more to life – more I wanted to be doing, more I wanted to be contributing, more I wanted to be feeling. I wanted to live on purpose. I wanted to matter more. I couldn’t figure out what that meant or how …

The Shift to Consciousness

Can you feel the shift?   There is something profound happening right now in the world. I can only describe it as a deepening into the idea and feeling of coming home. We are like salmon coming home, upstream into the rivers of our origins. And we are deeply supported by life as we do. …

Connect with Money: Free Meditation

I recommend that you listen to this post, rather than read it. Click here to listen. (7 minutes):   Who is Money?   We all grew up with stories about money. Stories like:   Money is hard to get. If you get it too easily you’re cheating somehow or taking advantage or just plain lazy. …