No Longer Waiting
No Longer Waiting When you are so done with waiting for change just to happen, you finally realize that YOU are the change. Instead of waiting for anyone else to do something differently, instead of...
Hope
Hope When there seems no other way but through the darkness when the light of hope flickers out when you wonder how you will make it through or if you will ever be happy again Please, take my hand....
How to love your inner critic and still create what you were born to create
So...I can't keep it in anymore! And it's time to share: I'm writing a second book! I've BEEN writing it this whole year -- discerning, listening, scribbling down notes as ideas come to me,...
Decoding Your Teen: understanding your teen’s subtle bid for connection and how to respond with presence and compassion
The other night I was in my office finishing up some work. It was right before bedtime. My almost-teenager came into the room and sat down on the couch. “Hey, mom,” he said. I had work to finish up,...
Dropping the Armor
Dropping the Armor One day – maybe because it’s time or because the weight has become too crushing – you drop the armor around your heart so you can breathe and love in this world undefended. Lisa...
Start Now
Start Now Start Now. Whatever it is that has been on your heart to try, create, or embrace - just take one soulful action today toward that desire. Life is so short and precious. Let’s live it with...
The Grief That Won’t Go Away
The Grief that Won’t Go Away Beneath the hurry and worry, beneath the frazzled scurrying for control, beneath the frustration turned resentment, beneath the fear that comes out as anger and rage...
Your Heart Will Be Satisfied
Your Heart Will Be Satisfied I see your suffering. I will not let that ache within you remain forever tender and raw. I will not let your cry go unheard. I will satisfy your deepest longings. I will...
The Gospel Within You
Each of us has stories of failure, hurt, loneliness, and regret. We also have stories still to be written of triumph, grace, belonging, and letting go. There is a gospel within us that wants to be preached and embodied – one where we remember our innate goodness and we claim our light in this world hungry for such hope.
The Soul’s Way
The Soul’s Way You think that you can control what will come by planning and striving, reaching and being ever so organized. When you have “everything in place,” you have the illusion of control....
Your eyes tell me that your soul has been nourished
“Focus is the new superpower." I read this recently in a business journal. I think that right now, we are craving SOUL focus. Two years ago, I facilitated a workshop at Georgetown University for...
Devotion
Devotion Great Mother, I surrender any and every version of myself to you – any plan, any vision, and every hope. You are all my ideas and dreams. I am and always have been on this path of devotion...












