Have you experienced times of deep hardship and suffering? It's in those moments that peace can often feel elusive, leaving us asking: can peace and suffering coexist?

Like most of us, you probably find yourself scrambling to catch up to your life. It doesn’t matter if it’s with your job, the kids and all of their activities or even the laundry. There never seems to be enough time in any given day to feel somewhat accomplished. And then I realized the importance of […]

Where in your life are you holding on for dear life thinking that if you let go, somehow things will either fall apart or that you will never obtain whatever it is you are searching for? 

What does meditation mean? How do we go about working with our habitual patterns of behavior and the emotions in our daily lives? The only way we can do so is to begin by becoming genuine and down to earth with ourselves and those around us. One of the ways I’ve been able to get […]

Have you ever wondered, "What is life coaching?" Maybe you've noticed that many of your days are spent being pushed around by your desires and dislikes. You find yourself striving to find happiness and an equal desire to avoid pain. Our conditioning determines our reactions to everyday encounters. For example, someone says something unkind or […]

If you’ve landed on this page, you might be wondering why life coaching is important. You must have some inkling that it’s time to make some kind of a shift in your life. Perhaps you feel like you’re in limbo, trying to sort out just what you want to do next in your life. Maybe […]

Here’s a great practice to incorporate to bring mindfulness into your daily life. Essentially, it’s “meditation in action.” I like to say that when we meditate on the cushion each day, it’s more of our “formal practice” but that the rubber hits the proverbial road when we are out in the world practicing mindfulness and […]

How can meditation affect anxiety? If you find yourself struggling with it, you're not alone. Aside from Ukraine for obvious reasons, the United States comes in second place among the top 10 countries with the highest rates of anxiety in the world. Let's talk about what meditation does to the brain! Of all of the […]

If you’ve been following this series over the past three weeks, we’ve been taking a very rudimentary look into the first three of the most basic and most fundamental of all Buddhist teachings: the Four Noble Truths. This fourth post brings us to Buddha’s prescription for how we embark on the path out of our […]

How can we access love, compassion and wisdom? I always tell my practitioners and clients that the entry into this is already within us. But what about when we aren’t feeling particularly compassionate, wise, or loving? How can we go about accessing these parts of ourselves that seem distant and somehow “out there” and unattainable? […]