A teacher once told me “if you carry big light you cast a big shadow.” Simply put, if you’re actively trying to make a difference in the world, charge it with enthusiasm or inspiration or light, there’s work to be done in the unconscious. Wherever you relegate the unwanted aspects of yourself, there lies both opportunity and treasure. “Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”– Joseph Campbell Somewhere along the way shadow aspects have got a bad rap. Weakness, vulnerability, tenderness, doubt, Selfishness, judgment, impatience, anxiety, depression, anger and yet if you think about all of the ginormous strides you […]

Sometimes you just gotta LIE DOWN. No matter how brave, how stalwart, how true…sometimes you just have to surrender and let the world have its way with your raw, burning heart. Oh it can’t have your soul, or your worth, or your peace. But it can have your heart, because to live any other way than vulnerably whole-hearted is a denial of your most authentic nature. And sometimes that kind of wide open love requires stillness. Surrender. Gratitude. Even when things are sucky. Even when they are hard. Especially when they seem impossible. Like right now. The world is burning. […]

when you’re tempted to give up to not believe go to the ruins of all you once held dear and marvel at the person the brokenness has created you, in the center of all that’s failed like a phoenix burning free unleashed into new life you are the ancestor of the woman you will become she is sending gratitude to where you stand now your ruin ignited her future Into a blaze of possibility – Angi Sullins .