Love has no agenda …

Freedom to be happy is freedom to be true-to-you. And that is as good as you get … as a parent, a partner, a friend.… More

With a dip in the pool, following my jog, I feel very grateful. And I want to share something. If it’s more than you want to hear, I hope you’ll love me anyway–not just for my sake, for yours, too. Five weeks ago, I had surgery to remove my breast implants. The decision to put them in was made 27 years ago. And while I wasn’t bemoaning it, I knew it wasn’t a choice I’d make again. I was living with dissonance. But surgery involved risk, expense, and recovery, making it a tough choice.

I’m learning to take the first step, though, trusting love to bring the pieces together. And I’m so grateful. I had no idea I’d feel THIS liberated. I couldn’t undo what I’d done, but I’m grateful, so grateful, for my best shot at it. No implants, no fat grafting. The surgeon said I didn’t have enough fat for him to charge me to move it. He was funny and so kind.

No judgment here. This was just the right choice for ME. I find my joy in being me. I find my beauty in feeling like me. I find my peace in discerning dissonance–any deviation from my true self–and aligning with love.… More

We are smitten by somebody who lets us in and “gets” us, somebody who is tuned in to us. The biological need we have to be loved is really a need to be seen and understood, to be valued, to be responded to. To be in synch! And while this desire seems almost lost to our consciousness, it helps to explain why sex is our favorite substitute for love. If only for a few moments, we have dropped our boundaries and connected.

Let’s recognize sex for what it is—a beautiful glimpse of love. But let’s not stop at a glimpse. … More

Some people think you can be TOO honest; but when you hide pieces of the truth, you hide pieces of you. And while you might protect yourself from rejection, you also protect yourself from connection, intimacy, and love. But you are lovable! You can take the mask off and feel loved, truly loved!… More

The global peace we want starts in our own minds, our own hearts, our own hands, our own homes, our own streets. And the only prerequisite is opening to individual value, ours and that of every other human being. That means opening to their perspective and views. We can’t reach peace with others by arbitrarily deciding how they should think.

A closed mind is a scared one. An anxious mind is a scared one. And fear can’t birth peace. Love can. Because love is fearless. It is peace.… More

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